After more than 27 years on the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire in the near future.
His resignation however will not, in anyway change the supreme court’s political leanings. After a successor is appointed by President Joe Biden, the court will have a 6-3 conservative majority.
The end of Breyer’s term comes ahead of the most intense judicial fight against abortion since the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973. The effort inches closer and closer to overturning then decades old decision each day.
The left has begun calling for Biden to pack the Supreme Court once more. This option would add to the number of justices that sit on the court, what’s the worst that could happen?
Well this would set a precedent for any future President to assume tyrannical power matched only by the likes of a monarch and change the political alignment of the Supreme Court at any point in time. Suddenly checks and balances installed in our government to limit power are eliminated.
If Biden were to pack the Supreme Court, creating a liberal majority, there would be no ideological checks whatsoever. Democrats would control each and every branch of government through a forcible seizure of power.
Who would stop the President? The Court? The very entity that he seeks to exert tyrannical power over?