Mike Davis: Packing the Court Is ‘A Radical Assault on Judicial Independence’

Amid the recent calls to pack the court following President Donald Trump’s push to appoint Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the founder of the Article III Project organization said such a move would be tantamount to a “radical assault” on the judicial system. “Court-packing is a radical assault on judicial independence,” Mike Davis, the founder of the organization, told The Epoch Times on Tuesday. And it differs from “what President Trump and Senate Republicans are doing,” he said, adding they “are filling existing vacancies and doing their job very well.” Davis cited former President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ultimately unsuccessful efforts to expand the court from 9 justices to 15 justices in a bid to get his New Deal programs passed in the mid-1930s. But FDR ultimately “failed,” and top members of the Democratic Party “rejected this as too radical,” he said. Decades later, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in …