Harvard Prof Wants to Pack SCOTUS With Leftists, Says “Socialism Will Win!”

By Selwyn Duke

The Left has been apoplectic over President Trump’s opportunity to fill the Supreme Court seat of retiring justice Anthony Kennedy. Filmmaker Michael Moore even proposed surrounding the US Capitol to prevent it. But now a Harvard professor has his own idea: The next time Democrats seize Congress, they should increase the number of justices to enable a liberal president to pack the SCOTUS with leftists. And he apparently thinks this is a move that will help socialism “to win.”

As Harvard Law School lecturer Ian Samuel put it on Twitter June 27: “Pack the courts as soon as we get the chance. ‘Pack the courts’ should be a phrase on par with ‘abolish ICE.’”

The next day he elaborated: “If the Democratic Party wins the 2020 election, it will have won the most votes in 7 out of the 8 previous national elections. Adding six members to create a fifteen-member Court, which would still have 5 GOP-appointed members, is actually incredibly generous to the Republicans.”

Note that this is entirely lawful. The Constitution doesn’t dictate a set number of SCOTUS justices; the figure is set statutorily by Congress.