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First Liberty President & CEO Kelly Shackelford appeared on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal this week discussing the dangers of President Biden’s radical Supreme Court “reform” scheme

President Biden published an op-ed in the Washington Post unveiling his plan for sweeping and radical changes to the Supreme Court.

President Biden addressed the nation on Wednesday following his announcement to exit the 2024 presidential race. In his speech, Biden said that pushing for Supreme Court “reforms” will be a priority during his final six months in office.

A Hollywood magnate has pledged $30 million to fund a think tank that will push to overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court.

A recent Wall Street Journal op-ed exposes the latest smear campaign against Justice Clarence Thomas.

The radical Supreme Court Coup is charging full speed ahead. House Democrats want to establish investigative bodies to review “ethics complaints”. This is nothing but an attempt to destroy our nation’s highest court.

President Biden may have just revealed what he intends to do if he wins the upcoming election. Will they once again try to pack the Supreme Court or pass legislation that forces justices to retire?

The far Left, politicians and some of the most radical groups in America continue attacking the U.S. Supreme Court.

A coalition of groups say they will spend millions to convince Americans to radically reshape the Supreme Court.

If you value our justice system, you need to read this. Your vote in the 2024 election could have big implications for the Supreme Court.

Several U.S. Senators recently introduced a bill to place term limits on U.S. Supreme Court justices. This is unjust and wrong!

The Constitution remains a guide and protector of our God-given rights and freedoms as Americans, including religious liberty.

Radical groups and politicians claim the nation’s highest court is hyper-partisan and bitterly divided along ideological lines

In its attempt to take control of the U.S. Supreme Court because it has—allegedly—”lost credibility” in the eyes of the American people.

That’s why First Liberty is going all in to expose the lie of court packing and educate Americans about the threat it poses to our Republic.

2024 is underway and the November election is right around the corner. On cue, the radical Left is already laying out its plan to “fix” the U.S. Supreme Court, if things go their way at the ballot box.

The radical Left desperately wants to turn the U.S. Supreme Court into a rubber-stamp for its political agenda. And they’re ready to pour in hundreds of thousands—even millions—of dollars to make it happen.

After the Trump ballot decision, the radical Left wants to pack or even get rid of the U.S. Supreme Court altogether.

Politico recently published a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson. It suggests the Court could be on the verge of striking down Roe v. Wade, the decision that made abortion legal in all 50 states.

During a speaking engagement, Justice Thomas recently warned that court-packing is dangerous to the integrity of the Court and threatens to destroy core institutions of our Republic.

President Biden’s Commission on the U.S. Supreme Court presented a final draft of its findings this week, including the dangerous possibility of packing the nation’s highest court.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech during a recent trip to South America, stating that “undermining the independence of the courts” and “packing courts” were among “the ways that democracies can come undone.”

Although he surely did not intend to do so, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken dealt the coup de grâce to the radical Left’s court packing project this week.

This month a memo from the Attorney General of the United States and one-time nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Merrick Garland, directed the “[FBI], working with each United States Attorney, to convene meetings with federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial leaders in each federal judicial district…[to] facilitate the discussion of strategies for addressing threats against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff, and will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment, and response.”

Surprising no one, the presidential commission studying potential U.S. Supreme Court reform measures has issued a draft report that stopped short of any recommendation to turn the nation’s highest court into a partisan rubber stamp.

Which branch of the federal government do you trust the most? The President? Congress? The Supreme Court? Gallup reports that a vast majority of Americans—an average of two-thirds or more—say they have a “great deal” or “fair amount” of trust the judicial branch.

This week, nearly a half-million Americans joined First Liberty and a diverse, national coalition of leaders in delivering a joint statement to President Biden’s Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States.

The U.S. Senate recently confirmed several judicial nominees to America’s federal courts, bringing the total number of confirmations under the Biden administration to thirteen (13).

As members of the Democratic Party recently doubled down on their calls to pack the U.S. Supreme Court, Justices Stephen Breyer and Amy Coney Barrett issued a series of responses to those pushing to rig the Court for ideological and political gain.

When the Supreme Court declined to block a Texas law prohibiting abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, you didn’t have to be a savant of American politics to see what was coming.

In their plot to stage a full-scale coup of America’s judiciary, proponents of court-packing won’t be satisfied by stacking four more justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, or even by adding an extra 203 judges to the lower district courts.

The Left is doubling down in its attempt to stage a Supreme Court Coup by packing America’s courts with hundreds of liberal judges, arguing that doing so will “restore balance” to the courts and better serve Americans.

Protests break out across the Cuba and offer a sobering reminder that tyrannical regimes all begin in a similar way: By crushing religious liberty.

Thanks to the quality of federal judges, a train of government overreach and abuses of federal executive power is being brought to a halt.

In this “Roadmap to Tyranny,” we explore court-packing going wrong in Hungary and the plan to stage a Supreme Coup of America’s judiciary.

The U.S. Senate recently confirmed the first five (5) federal judges of the Biden administration, including Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the influential D.C. Circuit of Appeals, largely considered the “second highest” court in the country after the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as a handful of judges to the lower district courts.

Polling nationwide and in key battleground states of Arizona and West Virginia show more than 2/3rds of Americans oppose court-packing.

The far left is attemping to court pack at all levels of the federal judiciary. This could radically change our country – for the worse.

More and more U.S. Senators and Representatives appear to be realizing that court-packing is a destructive plot to overthrow our nation’s judiciary.

What does the American public think about court-packing? In our recent poll of 1,100 voters, sixty-eight percent oppose court packing in any form.

In this feature, we look at which justices voted most frequently in favor of religious freedom and what this means for future of religious liberty.

Full of key facts and important data, this article will expose and debunk four common court-packing myths.

If the radical Left succeeds at eliminating the filibuster, it will be like dropping a bomb on the Constitution—including the way to dangerous plans like court-packing.