Incoming Democratic House member wants to stack Supreme Court with liberal justices

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Washington Examioner

New York Democrat Mondaire Jones is poised to become one of the first openly gay black members of Congress, and he's also been candid about his support for packing the Supreme Court with liberal justices.

 

"Our democracy is under assault, and the Supreme Court has dealt many of the sharpest blows. If Democrats want to do something about that, expanding the court is our only option," he wrote during his primary campaign to succeed retiring House Appropriations Chairwoman Nita Lowey.

Jones's Slate op-ed was penned after the Supreme Court blocked Wisconsin from extending absentee voting for its spring elections, including the Democratic presidential primary, amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

When Jones gets to Congress as a first-term member, it will be a tall order to push through court-expanding legislation and pass it into law. He'll succeed Lowey in the district she's represented since 1989, which includes all of Rockland County and portions of Westchester County just north of New York City.