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Democrats, even before President Donald Trump started gaining constitutional and favorable rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court, joined other leftists in insisting that the institution must be changed, stacked with leftist ideologues, so the party can get its way whenever it wants.
While Joe Biden was in the White House and Democrats were at their peak power to weaponize the government against their political opponents, through Letitia James, Jack Smith, Fani Willis, the FBI and more, the talk fell by the wayside.
But with President Donald Trump back in the Oval Office and a few Democrat election victories in governors' races, it's back, and "with a vengeance," according to constitutional expert Jonathan Turley, the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law and George Washington University.
Elections can cause people to speak the unspoken, he noted.
"Partisans can blurt out their inner thoughts with shocking frankness. That was the case this week as Democratic luminaries discussed plans to retake power and then fundamentally change the constitutional system to guarantee they will never have to give it up again," he noted.
"It turns out that winning votes in three blue states and a blue city in an off-year election can be quite intoxicating. It is easy to dismiss it as the talk of chest-thumping, bar-room blowhards about whom they were going to thump. But there is a truth in the bravado."
He noted the demands from Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who said "The Democrat Party looks powerful for the first time all year."
He cited the importance of the Democrats' decision to shut down the government, to coerce the Republican into giving them their way.
Those budget resolution demands include raiding American taxpayers' wallets for another $1.5 trillion for paid propaganda, health care for illegal aliens and more, and it appears the party lost as members crossed over during the weekend to support a GOP plan to reopen federal functions.
Murphy had explained how important it was that the Democrats' win, to squash the idea that Democrats were in "retreat."
And it was ex-Attorney General Eric Holder who not only talked about regaining power, but never giving it up.
"That means weakening the greatest single check on power: the Supreme Court," Turley wrote.
He said he was talking about "the acquisition and the use of power, if there is a Democratic trifecta in 2028."
He said the Supreme Court must change.
"It's something that has to be, I think, a part of the national conversation in '26 and in '28, 'What are we going to do about the Supreme Court?'" he charged.
Turley noted, "In other words, the court, as we know it, has got to go. While some on the left are questioning the very need for a Supreme Court or calling for it to be simply defied or 'dissolved,' others want it to be stacked with political activists, like some state supreme courts are."
Colorado's highest state court, for example, is made up of all Democrats, who even tried to banish Trump from the 2024 election ballot before being swatted down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
He\y said changes there would have to happen for Democrats to force the creation of D.C. and Puerto Rico as states with two new Democrat senators each.
"Others want election and immigration 'reforms' viewed as favoring Democratic campaigns," he said.
Democrat strategist James Carville joined the bandwagon.
"I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. A Democrat is going to be elected in 2028. You know that. I know that. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court. They're going to recommend that the number of Supreme Court justices go from nine to 13. That's going to happen, people."
He said, "That's going to happen to you. They're going to win. They're going to do some blue ribbon panel of distinguished jurists, and they are going to recommend 13, and a Democratic Senate and House is going to pass it, and the Democratic president is going to sign it, because they have to do an intervention so we can have a Supreme Court that the American people trust again."
