WHY COURT EXPANSION?

The Supreme Court has sabotaged democracy by dismantling the Voting Rights Act, allowing dark money to flood our politics, and approving partisan gerrymandering, and it has been engaged in a long-term effort to tilt the scales in favor of corporations and elites.

The Court has spent decades compromising women's right to control their bodies, reversing racial progress, blocking gun safety legislation, closing our shores to immigrants, and gutting environmental regulations. Nor does the Court's extremist majority reflect the will of the people. Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch were chosen by a President who lost the popular vote and they were confirmed by a Senate whose majority was elected by a minority of voters. Indeed, 15 of the last 19 appointments to the Court were made by presidents from the political party that has lost the popular vote in 6 of the last 7 presidential elections. President Obama was prevented from filling an open vacancy in 2016, an unprecedented theft in U.S. history, and the stolen Supreme Court stands in the way of the people's ability to govern and regulate themselves.

There is only one option for saving democracy, which is to pass a new law adding seats to the Supreme Court. Otherwise, the stolen Court will continue to sabotage democracy, and will continue to prevent the other branches of government from fixing the national emergencies that plague our nation.