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April 10, 2021

Supreme Court rules against California's limits on in-home religious gatherings

The U.S. Supreme Court in a divided decision late Friday ruled in favor of lifting restrictions on in-home religious gatherings, overturning a lower court ruling that upheld Gov. Gavin Newsom’s limits on people from different homes.

April 9, 2021

New York Times blasted for calling Biden's SCOTUS commission 'effort to balance the conservative majority'

The New York Times was slammed on Friday over a tweet that appeared to justify President Biden's controversial Supreme Court reform commission, which critics see as the first move toward court-packing.

April 9, 2021

Hannity rails Biden and Democrats' willingness to do anything for power: 'They want to overhaul' Supreme Court

In his opening monologue on 'Hannity', Fox News host Sean Hannity slammed the Biden administration and the Democratic Party in their efforts to pack the Supreme Court with more liberal justices as a way to implement their agenda and maintain power

April 9, 2021

McConnell: Biden Supreme Court commission 'direct assault on our nation's independent judiciary'

McConnell unloaded on the idea of packing the court and the White House’s plan to form a commission to study the idea of adding justices in a Friday press release, calling the idea a “direct assault on our nation’s independent judiciary.”

April 9, 2021

Karl Rove slams Biden's pick to head Supreme Court commission as 'political hack'

Fox News contributor Karl Rove warns Democrats against expanding the Supreme Court, saying it may not working their favor in 2022, on 'Your World.'

April 9, 2021

Liberals ramp up calls for Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire after he panned court packing in speech

Many on the left had quietly hoped that Justice Stephen Breyer would retire in 2021, opening up a seat on the Supreme Court for President Biden to fill — but now some are waging a public campaign to pressure the liberal stalwart to step down. 

April 9, 2021

Biden orders study on 'size' of Supreme Court, other possible changes amid liberal court-packing push

President Biden will issue an executive order Friday to form a commission to study reforms to the United States Supreme Court.Biden, under pressure from liberals to expand the size of the high court, promised to create the commission during a "60 Minutes" interview back in October in the wake of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. 

April 8, 2021

MSNBC host calls on liberal Supreme Court Justice Breyer to retire after his warning against 'court-packing'

MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan has called on liberal Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire from the bench after he spoke out forcefully against court-packing earlier this week.

April 8, 2021

New York Times frets over religious right's winning streak at Supreme Court

A New York Times story this week fretted about the Supreme Court's recent track record of ruling in favor of religious groups and quoting figures fearing Christian conservatives are "weaponizing" First Amendment protections at the expense of progressive interests.

April 8, 2021

Inside Biden White House's ties to dark money group seeking to pack Supreme Court

Both White House press secretary Jen Psaki and President Biden's judicial nomination point person Paige Herwig previously worked for Demand Justice.