The Left’s Latest Supreme Court-Packing Scheme Exposes an Existential Threat to Our Republic

Why are Democrats bringing up court-packing again?

Back in 2020 and under President Joe Biden, the institutional Left would tell anyone foolish enough to listen that we needed to add seats to the Supreme Court. In October 2024, however, much of the court-packing rhetoric vanished, almost on cue.

Now, it’s back, as Democrats strain to find any reason to claim they’re getting slighted while President Donald Trump seeks to restore fairness by correcting the errors of the 2020 census.

Court-Packing and More

James Carville, the Democrat political strategist best known for helping Bill Clinton get elected, decided to remind Americans why they can’t trust the Left. He brought up court-packing and more.

“If the Democrats win the presidency, the Senate, and the House in 2028 … they are just going to have to unilaterally add Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as states,” Carville said on the show “Politics War Room” Thursday. “The Constitution gives Congress power over federal elections, I don’t think they can redistrict, but there are things they can do. … And they may have to expand the court to 13 members.”

While he admitted these changes might amount to “opening Pandora’s box,” he added, “if you want to save democracy, I think you’ve got to do all of those things, because we just are moving further and further away from being anything close to a democracy.”

Redistricting

Carville referred to redistricting because Texas and Florida are considering altering their congressional districts before the 2026 midterm elections on the grounds that the 2020 census was inaccurate.

Every 10 years, the U.S. takes a census, and the results determine how many members of Congress each state has. An overcount means more members in the House of Representatives and more electoral votes in the Electoral College, which determines the presidential election every four years.

In 2024, the Government Accountability Office reported that the 2020 census undercounted five states that lean conservative: Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Meanwhile, it overcounted five states that lean liberal: Delaware, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, and Rhode Island. This means Republicans likely have fewer House seats than they should, and that Trump had fewer Electoral College votes in 2024 than he should have received.

Trump has ordered a new census to correct the errors, and Democrats have responded by condemning the entire system.

Should We Tell Voters?

Carville suggested Democrats might fundamentally change American politics without letting the American people know ahead of time.

“I don’t know if it’s something that they should talk about during the campaign, I guess you probably would want to,” he said.

Hmm. Would you “want to” campaign on fundamentally altering the political playing field when asking the American people for their votes?

Would it, perhaps, be—I don’t know—dishonest or something for you not to mention such an extreme change when the people have a chance to weigh in?

While Carville said these changes would “save democracy.” In reality, they would alter the rules of the game in an attempt to give Democrats a permanent political edge.

Why Court-Packing?

For decades, the Left grew accustomed to seeing the Supreme Court not as a neutral arbiter that called balls and strikes but as an engine of “progress,” twisting the meaning of the law to force the Left’s agenda down Americans’ throats.

The Constitution never defended abortion, and the Founders vehemently opposed it, but the Supreme Court unilaterally—to borrow a word—amended America’s founding document to enshrine a “right” to baby killing.

The Constitution never redefined marriage, but the Supreme Court—in its infinite wisdom—strained to find a “right to dignity” that would restructure the fundamental building blocks of society.

The Supreme Court’s current conservative majority does not represent a threat to democracy—so much as a return to legal sanity. Democrats reveal their own cluelessness when they insist on branding it “Christian nationalism.”

Ugly Historical Echoes

Carville’s suggestion that Democrats add more states has an ugly historical echo.

Before the Civil War, Southern Democrats sought every political advantage to defend slavery. As the North and West began to oppose the expansion of slavery, the South aimed to add new states to the union, particularly to help the slave cause. Ultimately, Congress hammered out grand compromises, allowing slave states to enter the union alongside free states, but the South wanted slavery to extend northward, into Kansas and Nebraska.

Abraham Lincoln didn’t threaten to end slavery where it existed—but he did vehemently oppose its expansion. His election represented a fundamental check to the South’s agenda, and that’s why southern states seceded.

The Left has enjoyed immense power in Washington—with sway in the bureaucracy that lasted even during Republican administrations. The 2020 census only underscores that imbalance.

Trump is upending that permanent influence. His second term and the Supreme Court’s majority represent a check on the Left’s immense institutional power, and the activists are increasingly desperate to prevent it by any means possible—even at the risk of America’s representative government.

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