{"id":496475,"date":"2023-01-11T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T20:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=496475"},"modified":"2023-01-21T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T20:54:48","slug":"republicans-push-bill-to-prevent-expanding-the-size-of-the-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/republicans-push-bill-to-prevent-expanding-the-size-of-the-supreme-court","title":{"rendered":"Republicans push bill to prevent expanding the size of the Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) &#8212; Congress is gearing up for a fight over the size of the Supreme Court. Republicans want to prevent court packing but some Democrats are hoping to block their bill. Currently, nine justices sit on the Supreme Court. Congressman Dusty Johnson is leading a charge to keep it that way. The American public no longer believes the Supreme Court is impartial &#8220;We need to keep the nine,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want the size of this Supreme Court to ping-pong up and down just on the basis of the most recent Federal Election.&#8221; Johnson and other Republicans are pushing to pass a constitutional amendment that would cement the number of seats on the high court. They say it&#8217;s a direct response to Democrats who want to expand the court. Republicans argue that would erode the balance of power between the branches, making the court more political and less independent. &#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t use political weaponization to try to change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress is gearing up for a fight over the size of the Supreme Court. Republicans want to prevent court packing but some Democrats are hoping to block their bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}