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The Keep Nine Amendment

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A Constitutional Amendment that stops the court packing scam. #KeepNine is more popular than #ExpandTheCourt

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Sen Ted Cruz has reintroduced the “Keep 9” Amendment, S.J. Res 16, in the 119th Congress with 19 Senate co-sponsors: Sens, Grassley, Cornyn, Lee, Capito, Tillis, Budd, Britt, Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Cassidy, Blackburn, Hagerty, Young, Banks, Cramer, Fischer, Sheehy, Crapo and Risch.

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Would last night’s Super Bowl have been worth watching if the defending champions had been able to expand the referee pool to give their allies control? Independent referees are as essential to a fair game as an independent Supreme Court is to democracy.

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Hakeem Jeffries reportedly told Silicon Valley donors that Democrats plan to retake the House by “reaching toward the center.” Will “reaching out to the center” include giving up on plans to pack the Supreme Court? Will any Democrats cosponsor the Keep 9 Amendment in Congress?

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Would a President’s refusal to comply with a Supreme Court order be a step towards dictatorship? What about a President who packed the Supreme Court to it make a rubber stamp for his or her actions? Would the “Keep 9” Amendment help protect America from potential dictators?

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What is the difference between packing the Supreme Court and refusing to obey a Supreme Court order? Both tactics would give Presidents absolute power. But only one is now illegal. The “Keep 9” Amendment would outlaw Court packing.

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Justice Barrett, appointed by Trump, just cast the deciding vote against his request to freeze foreign aid. An independent Supreme Court preserves the rule of law. The Keep 9 Amendment will preserve an independent Supreme Court.

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ABA President William Bey asks “Who will speak up for the judiciary?” Now will he support the “Keep 9” Amendment to ensure neither party can undermine the independence of the judiciary by manipulating the size of the Supreme Court?

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The Texas State Senate, by an overwhelming bipartisan 27-3 margin just passed a Resolution urging Congress to propose the “Keep 9” Amendment to ban Supreme Court packing. 8 of 11 Texas Senate Democrats voted YES! Democrats in Congress should take notice.

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As Democrats debate their future, what issue still unites them in Congress? THEY WANT TO KEEP THE POWER TO PACK THE COURT. Not a singe Democrat in this Congress has yet backed the “Keep 9”Amendment to ban Court packing even tho it was first introduced in 2020 by a Democrat!

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Except for 2/3 of Congress, only 5 people, a majority of the Supreme Court, can actually limit a Presidents power. Politicians should never be able to alter the Court’s size to create a rubber-stamp majority for an authoritarian ruling party.

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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has just called for “fearlessly independent judges.” Will she now join the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by stating her opposition to proposals to “pack the Court?” that would undermine the independence of the Supreme Court?

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Warning from Sen Maj. Leader Thune “…Schumer opened the door to supporting his party’s court-packing scheme and previously, infamously threatened Supreme Court justices who didn’t rule the way he wanted.” This is 1 reason we need the “Keep 9” Amendment to ban Court Packing.

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Barack Obama: “I think people tend to think, ah, democracy, rule of law, independent judiciary, freedom of the press, that's all abstract stuff because it's not affecting the price of eggs. Well, you know what, it's about to affect the price of eggs.” Should Obama back “Keep 9?”

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Court packing? Q to DNC’s David Hogg “Does the Democratic Party have a strategic plan..similar to Project 2025? Hogg; It does, and I think you can imagine why you don't know about it, because everybody else would know about it, including the people we don't want to know about

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Poll says 52% thinks Trump is a “dangerous dictator.”  Shouldn’t Democrats who agree want to take away a President’s power to expand the Court to make it a rubber stamp for authoritarians?  Democrats should join Republicans to enact the “Keep 9” Amendment to ban Court packing.

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Even more important than what’s been done in 10O days, President Trump and Congressional leaders in both parties should think about enacting the “Keep 9”Amendment to preserve an independent Supreme Court for the next 100 years! That would be a real legacy!

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just attacked threats to the Supreme Court. If she thought Trump or a successor might try to expand the size of the Court to make it less independent, would she support the Keep 9 Amendment to ban Court packing?

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Happy Father’s Day! Our Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution with an independent Supreme Court to protect every one of our Constitutional rights. We need to ensure the Supreme Court remains independent by enacting the Keep 9 Amendment to ban Court packing.

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A question to ask those who attended a “No Kings” Rally: What does every King fear? Answer: An independent Supreme Court. Next question: Should Presidents and their majority party keep the power to expand the size of the Court to make it a rubber stamp for an authoritarian?