For Immediate Release

COURT EXPANSION IS NOT AN ACADEMIC EXERCISE

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (June 30, 2021) — Take Back the Court Director Aaron Belkin today released the following statement on the second meeting of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court.

"While the stolen Supreme Court continues it’s judicial rampage, the Presidential Commission is spinning its wheels by hosting elite law professors for a theoretical debate. In just over a month since the Commission’s last meeting, the Court has approved discrimination against LGBTQ families and obliterated decades of precedent to stop workers from organizing. Tomorrow, they could further gut the Voting Rights Act and invite even more dark money political spending. Despite featuring some thoughtful and distinguished scholars, today’s meeting doesn’t move us any closer to stopping the Court’s fast-advancing assault on our rights and our democracy.

"This isn’t an academic exercise. Real lives are at stake, and we don’t have any time left to waste. Congress can’t sit on the Judiciary Act while waiting on a glorified law review article when the answer to saving our democracy is staring us in the face. We must expand the Supreme Court now."

Take Back the Court raises awareness about the urgent need to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court to address the theft of the court by Senator Mitch McConnell during the Obama Administration. Without adding seats, Congress will not be able to restore the right to vote, ensure reproductive freedom, protect workers, halt our climate emergency, or pass new legislation. Court expansion, which can be accomplished without a constitutional amendment, is the only reform that enables the un-rigging of the system and the restoration of democracy. Learn more at https://www.takebackthecourt.today.