Democrats are once again calling for the Supreme Court to be “expanded” and “reformed” after the high court affirmed Thursday in a 6-3 decision that “temporary” means “temporary.”
The Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s efforts to revoke temporary protected status for foreigners in the country. The ruling came in Mullin v. Doe and Trump v. Miot. Trump tried to revoke TPS for roughly 350,000 Haitian nationals living in the country, but U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes issued a ruling in February blocking the president from doing so. Reyes justified her usurpation of executive authority by claiming George Washington would have supported TPS.
Like clockwork, Democrats rushed to demand the court must be “reformed” because they didn’t like the ruling.
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., posted on X: “Donald Trump’s Supreme Court has ended legal protections for tens of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants. Rather than protect the hard-working families that contribute to our communities, Trump’s justices are sending them back to the same places they fled. Democrats need to reform the court to preserve our rights and protect TPS families.” Moulton later went on CNN to explicitly call for “packing” and “expanding” the court.
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., responded to the court’s decision by posting on X: “Expand the court.”
Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., responded to the ruling by posting on X: “The far-right MAGA majority on the Court cannot stand. We need to win back the House and the Senate and expand the Court.”
Rep. Yvette Clark, D-N.Y, said Congress has “stood by and waited for this activist court to recalibrate its duty to the law and America’s well-being. … It’s clear now that this legislative body must seize back the power that our increasingly unequal branches have stolen, and that must start with action to protect the hundreds of thousands of TPS holders whose lives depend upon it.”
This wouldn’t be the first time Democrats try to change the rules because they “lost.”
Former Vice President Kamala Harris just recently suggested that possibly expanding the Supreme Court is part of Democrats’ “no bad idea brainstorm.”
After the Supreme Court ruled in Louisiana v. Callais that states cannot use race in the redistricting process, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries suggested that “everything is on the table” when “deal[ing] with” the high court.
Longtime Democrat strategist James Carville said in a recent interview that “if the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico, D.C., a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13.”
Even on a state level Democrats have sought to expand the court when they are issued a ruling they dislike. After Virginia’s Supreme Court shot down Democrats’ unconstitutional attempt to redistrict, several on the left called to make drastic changes to the court, including lowering the retirement age for justices.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
