by Eric Lendrum
Far-left civil rights group Demand Justice has announced plans to spend $10 million on a campaign to smear the Supreme Court following its ruling in favor of President Donald Trump on a presidential immunity issue.
According to PoliticalDemand Justice’s goals for the $10 million spending include opposition research on potential future Supreme Court justices and suggestions for ethics reforms on the court. The group also plans to focus on demographic groups such as women and younger voters, falsely claiming that those groups have been “attacked” by recent Supreme Court rulings. Demand Justice also intends to target right-wing judicial groups that played a role in shaping the court’s conservative majority during the Trump administration.
“Our democracy is in absolute crisis, and the Supreme Court majority is accelerating it,” said Skye Perryman (pictured above), modern senior counsel for Demand Justice. “We have a court that is failing to protect our democratic institutions.”
There have been growing calls from the far left for Democrats to pack the Supreme Court by increasing the total number of justices so that the court could gain a modern liberal majority. These efforts began largely in 2016, when the Republican-led Senate refused to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia in the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency. After confirming three modern justices under President Trump, the court’s 6-3 conservative majority issued landmark rulings on issues such as abortion, gun control and affirmative action.
On Monday, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that President Trump has absolute immunity for actions that fall within his “final and exclusive” constitutional authority, as well as presumptive immunity for other official actions. Largely seen as a huge victory for the former president, the ruling all but fatally cripples the ongoing prosecution of President Trump by special counsel Jack Smith and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, ensuring their cases won’t go to trial before the November election.
Other organizations that have sprung up with the same far-left goals include Court Accountability, United for Democracy, and Fix the Court. However, their demands to pack the court have stagnated due to a lack of support among most members of Congress and the White House. Even if such a proposal were introduced, it would require at least 60 votes in the U.S. Senate, which is mathematically impossible without some Republican support, which is highly unlikely.
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Eric Lendrum is a reporter for American Greatness.
Photo “Skye Perryman” by Skye Perryman.
