Posted on 06/27/2026 8:15:41 PM PDT by Red Badger
For years, Democrats have told America they are the ones defending democracy, norms, and institutions.
Then the Supreme Court hands President Trump a few major wins, and suddenly they want to change the size of the Court.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal went on Newsmax and said Democrats are “absolutely” talking about expanding the Supreme Court.
That is the tell.
The timing is impossible to miss.
The Court just handed President Trump key immigration victories, and the response from the left is already shifting from legal argument to institutional redesign.
When you cannot win the ruling, change the scoreboard.
Breitbart reported the Newsmax exchange and laid out the political context around Jayapal’s admission, including the timing after the Court’s immigration rulings.
The report centered on her answer after those decisions, when she said Democrats are “absolutely” discussing expansion of the Court as part of their response to the conservative majority.
That matters because court expansion is far more than a routine policy tweak. It would change the number of justices on the nation’s highest court because the current Court keeps handing down decisions the left hates.
The old pitch was judicial reform. The current political reality looks much more like adding seats until immigration, executive-power, and constitutional rulings come out differently for Democratic priorities.
Jayapal did not stop with the television hit.
She put the demand in writing on her own official X account.
Expand the court. Enact term limits. Implement serious ethics and transparency standards. That’s what we need to do to reform this right-wing Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/4p8oQkT1CL
— Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) June 25, 2026
Expand the Court.
Term limits.
New ethics and transparency standards.
That is the package she is selling after the Court refused to give the left the immigration outcomes it wanted.
In Jayapal’s official statement, she tied her criticism to two Supreme Court cases: Mullin v. Doe and Mullin v. Al Otro Lado.
Her statement accused the Court of limiting legal immigration, narrowing judicial review, and helping advance President Trump’s immigration agenda through emergency rulings affecting protected-status and parole policies across multiple immigrant communities nationwide.
That is Jayapal’s framing, and readers should know it accurately before judging the politics around it. She sees the Court’s immigration rulings as a direct threat to the policies she supports.
That is exactly why the expansion talk is so revealing. The objection now reaches the Court’s current composition and its willingness to rule against the left’s priorities in immigration fights.
And Jayapal is not the only Democrat moving in that direction.
Breitbart separately reported that Rep. Seth Moulton also said Democrats should talk about court packing after the Haitian TPS ruling.
Moulton’s comments came in the same post-ruling atmosphere, with Democrats furious over immigration decisions and searching for a way to answer a conservative-majority Court during a volatile term full of legal immigration flashpoints.
He connected the debate to Haitian protected-status recipients and argued Democrats should discuss expansion, term limits, ethics reform, and ways to push back against MAGA Republicans after the ruling.
That is the piece voters should notice. The public message is reform, while the practical effect would be adding new seats when the existing Court will not deliver the left’s preferred immigration rulings.
House Republicans have already warned exactly where this goes.
The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled “Court Packing: A Threat to the Supreme Court’s Legitimacy” before this latest round of Democratic comments.
The hearing framed Court expansion as a threat to judicial independence, separation of powers, and public trust in the Supreme Court after years of progressive pressure campaigns against conservative justices and unpopular constitutional rulings.
That institutional warning is the heart of the fight, because the size of the Court becomes a partisan weapon once it is treated as negotiable after bad rulings.
If one party can resize the Court whenever it loses enough cases, the Court becomes a political prize instead of a constitutional check on Congress and the White House.
President Trump won at the Supreme Court under the rules everyone has been living under.
Now Democrats are openly discussing whether those rules need to be changed.
That is a campaign to capture one.
Read the full Supreme Court ruling here: Mullin v. Doe. The related official ruling in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado is here too.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-1083_f204.pdf
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25-5_86qd.pdf
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Bring it. Let’s get this over with.
Send the bastards packing.
“NOW openly talking about it”???
Seems to me like they have been openly talking about it for years, not just ‘now.
and the useless GOP in the Senate will just sit there and allow it to happen after all they are their “Friends across the aisle” as they so stupidly always say
“Are now”??
This is a rinse and repeat headline.
I don’t like the characterization of these decisions as ‘handing Trump a series of wins’.
The way it is supposed to work is the SCOTUS rules on the constitutionality of the issues brought before it, not who is president or the ideology/political party of POTUS.
Why doesn’t on the GOP talk about packing the court now? Let’s select 5 more conservative judges now.
Citizen Viiglante.
Exactly.
I’m with you on this one.
They’ve been saying that openly for a long time now.
We just need to do it before they can — while Trump is still in office. After Thune is dethroned.
They are planning something. Don’t know what, but the signs are there.
But remember, folks, there’s no difference whatsoever between GOP or Dem control of Congress, SCOTUS, etc. We have been told that repeatedly here - it doesn’t matter what successes occur or blocking of Dem/leftist attempted policies occur, the refrain is the same. So this “latest series of wins” at the SCOTUS doesn’t matter, because a packed Supreme Court of all Dem appointees would have done the same, etc. Stay home, they say, because it makes no difference who wins...
Deport the ugly islamist terrorist woman. WTH does she know about America?
Godless Democrats
are Destroying America
Unfortunately, you are correct. So many people can NOT see that they ONLY way out of this is a horrific civil war. These people are going for broke. They have decided, seize power or die trying.
Democrats have been talking about packing the supreme court sinc trump got elected and shifted it to a republican majority.
Gee, how odd that when the court was left leaning for decades, none of the democrats wanted to change the make up of the court.
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