A new nationwide survey highlighted in a Wall Street Journal opinion editorial found that most Americans don't support sweeping changes to the Supreme Court.
A new nationwide survey highlighted in a Wall Street Journal opinion editorial found that most Americans don't support sweeping changes to the Supreme Court, despite President Joe Biden's last-minute push for such a measure. The WSJ cited a Mason-Dixon Polling & Strategy survey that found that 'support for the separation of powers just as many of the speakers at this week’s Democratic National Convention seek to undermine it.
Noting that for 'over 150 years, the United States Supreme Court has had nine justices' and that court-packing 'is generally defined as increasing the number of Supreme Court seats, primarily to alter the ideological balance of the court,' the poll asked respondents if they agree with 'court-packing.
Sadly, such poisonous attacks on the highest court are likely to be a staple of this week’s convention,' the Wall Street Journal wrote about the comment. 'Thank goodness most Americans still don’t endorse them, according to the new Mason-Dixon poll commissioned by the First Liberty Institute, which advocates for religious freedom.'
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