What was once considered a radical fringe idea has become standard operating procedure for Democrats seeking Senate seats this November. Multiple candidates are either openly backing plans to pack the Supreme Court with additional justices or are deliberately hiding their positions from voters heading to the polls.
The Federalist assembled a comprehensive guide examining where major Democrat Senate candidates stand on expanding the high court for partisan advantage. The findings reveal a party increasingly comfortable with restructuring America’s judicial branch to secure favorable rulings.
In Alaska, Democrat Mary Peltola already went on record supporting court-packing during her 2022 House campaign. She told the Anchorage Daily News at the time that she would back legislation to “expand the size of the Supreme Court,” though she refused to explain why. When The Federalist reached out to ask if she still holds that position, Peltola declined to respond.
The Alaska Democrat has made her hostility toward the current court clear. Following the 2022 Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, Peltola declared, “Those who try to take away our rights always underestimate our strength.” She’s now challenging incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in a state that uses ranked-choice voting, a system that has created election chaos and confusion wherever it’s been implemented.
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Down in Florida, Democrat Angie Nixon has signaled she’ll join her party’s assault on the Supreme Court if voters send her to Washington. Her campaign website lists support for “Term limits and ethics reform for the Supreme Court, including binding ethics rules for all federal judges” among her priorities. The so-called ethics push traces back to left-wing operations like ProPublica, which have spent years running what The Federalist describes as dishonest hit pieces against conservative justices.
Nixon also wants to overturn the court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which protected political speech under the First Amendment by holding that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts cannot be limited. She criticized the court’s August ruling on President Trump’s mail-in voting executive order as well. When asked directly whether she supports adding justices to the Supreme Court, Nixon did not respond.
The Florida Democrat, who has links to the Democratic Socialists of America, is running against incumbent Republican Sen. Ashley Moody. Nixon recently said Moody should be thrown in jail and later doubled down on her call to weaponize the justice system against her political opponent.
Georgia presents perhaps the most revealing case study in Democrat positioning on court-packing. Sen. Jon Ossoff played the moderate during his 2020 race against Republican David Perdue. According to Politico, Ossoff told voters Democrats shouldn’t expand the court “just because a justice may be confirmed with whom we disagree on policy.”
Throughout the past year, Democrats from potential 2028 presidential hopefuls to congressional leadership have made their intentions known. They want to pack the court if they reclaim Congress and the White House. The only question remaining is whether voters will give them that chance.
This article originally appeared on American Faith and is reposted with permission.
