Hillary Clinton's New Supreme Court Reform Proposal Should Shock The Nation

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0:55Steve Forbes: Destroying the independence of the Supreme Court would be a catastrophe for our constitutional form of government. Yet, shockingly, the Democrats are ready to do just that.

1:10Steve Forbes: Hello, I'm Steve Forbes, and this is What's Ahead, where you get the insights you need better to navigate these turbulent times. The other day, Hillary Clinton, a former U.S. senator, Secretary of State and presidential candidate, casually proposed gutting the independence of the Supreme Court. How? By increasing the number of justices from 9 to 13. She assumes, of course, it would be a Democrat president choosing these new jurists. You can imagine, by the way, the howls of Hillary and other Democrats if Donald Trump made a similar proposal. Shockingly, the idea of packing the Supreme Court with politically pliant justices has become an accepted plank of the Democrat Party platform.

1:57Steve Forbes: The new justices would be chosen precisely to facilitate the agenda of the socialists and neocommunists who now dominate the party's policymaking. If they gain power, judicial safeguards from their potential tyrannical acts would be destroyed. Packing the court with puppet justices would demolish one of the three pillars of our constitutional republic, the other two being the executive and legislative branches. Our founders deliberately divided power to preserve our liberties from grasping government. The Supreme Court's role in blocking unconstitutional acts would go by the boards. If a president doesn't like a decision, why not just simply add justices who obey his dictates?

2:46Steve Forbes: Traditional independence and safeguards on the state and local level would also be compromised. Neutering the high court here would also set a terrible example for other countries. If the U.S. no longer believed in an independent judicial system, why would anyone else? Individual rights would be in jeopardy everywhere. Leftist Democrats loved the Supreme Court when it rendered decisions they desired. In fact, they long saw the court system as a way to engage what was called legislating from the bench. In other words, making new law without the inconvenience of getting approval by legislatures and Congress.

3:27Steve Forbes: The criticism that the Supreme Court today is a tool of President Trump is a smokescreen by extreme leftists for the real agenda of an all-powerful government. The Supreme Court has ruled against this administration several times, most notably the president's promiscuous application of tariffs. By the way, almost half of the court's recent decisions have been unanimous. The muted reaction thus far to the Democrats' court-packing scheme is stunning and disturbing. Perhaps that'll change if Democrats gain control of both the White House and Congress in 2028 and put the issue on the front burner, and people then grasp its ugly implications.

4:14Steve Forbes: But the initial mild reaction reflects the sad fact that most of our schools no longer teach civics, that is, the basics of how our government system of checks and balances is set up and the reasons for it. It's a sad commentary that immigrants who apply for citizenship learn more about our governing system than most of American kids do because they must pass the citizenship test. Back in 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt proposed packing the Supreme Court because he disliked some of its decisions. He had just won what was then the most sweeping presidential election victory in American history.

4:56Steve Forbes: His party had overwhelming majorities in Congress. Yet Americans in those days knew their physics, and they decisively turned against Roosevelt's plot, which then went down to a crashing legislative defeat. Hopefully, history will repeat itself here. I'm Steve Forbes. Thanks for listening. Do send in your comments and suggestions. I look forward to being with you soon again.

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