How to Use pack the court in a Sentence

pack the court

idiomatic phrase

• Yeah, and also this idea to, like, pack the court, right, which Pelosi has...
  — ABC News, 20 June 2021
• What are the implications of new calls to pack the court?
  — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2020
• To pack the court, Democrats would need more than just the prospect of a conservative court.
  — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
• The progressives within your party, some of them are pushing to pack the court, to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
  — CBS News, 20 Sep. 2020
• There were many equally opposed to the calls to pack the court, with the same suggestions that democracy was at stake.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
• Perhaps a crisis will occur, giving us a chance to pack the court, or abolish it.
  — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
• Progressive efforts to influence and pack the court may in the end destroy it.
  — WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
• Few -- if any -- really believe the workload is why progressives want to pack the court now.
  — Elizabeth Slattery, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
• That led to calls by some progressives for changes, including term limits and demands that Biden pack the court.
  — Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2021
• Try to change inconvenient ancient rules: seek to pack the court, end the filibuster, junk the Electoral College, and bring in two more states.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• That was interpreted by many as a threat to pack the court with additional justices if Democrats win the White House and Senate.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2020
• She's used the Supreme Court as a way to paint Greenfield as an extremist, accusing her opponent of supporting efforts to pack the court, or increase the number of judges on the bench.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2020
• Hanging over the proceedings was the Democratic threat to pack the court—to expand its size, creating new vacancies for liberal judges to fill—if Mr. Biden is elected.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
• Progressives have pushed to pack the court with liberal justices or to strip its authority as the last word on constitutional authority.
  — Joel Mathis, The Week, 23 Sep. 2021
• Fallon and fellow critics have blasted Biden’s court-packing commission for including members opposed to expanding the Supreme Court and producing a report rather than recommendations on whether to pack the court.
  — Houston Keene, Fox News, 18 May 2021

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