During his 2019 presidential campaign, Harris expressed willingness to consider packing the Supreme Court.
The Harris campaign has stopped commenting on court-packing after the vice president previously stated that "everything is on the table."
In 2019, Kamala Harris, who was then a senator and a Democratic presidential candidate, did not dismiss the possibility of packing the Supreme Court when she ran against Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
During her previous campaign, the now-vice president and Democratic presidential nominee for 2024 stated multiple times that she was not against expanding the Supreme Court, which would theoretically enable liberal justices to gain a majority through new appointments.
Harris stated in Nashua, New Hampshire, that she is open to discussing the possibility of increasing the number of justices on the United States Supreme Court, as per a report by Bloomberg.
During her primary campaign in 2019, Harris made it clear that she was open to adding more seats to the court, reiterating her interest in court-packing beyond a one-off remark.
At the time, Politico reported that Harris stated that "everything is on the table" to restore confidence in the Supreme Court, including court-packing.
The New York Times asked her if she wanted to provide more details on being "open" to court-packing, but she refused.
"I'm just open to it," she said.
Planet Chronicle Digital did not receive a comment from Harris' campaign in time for publication regarding whether Harris was still open to court-packing.
The Biden-Harris administration recently introduced a set of policies to reform the Supreme Court. Their plan includes limiting the tenure of Supreme Court justices, enforcing an ethics code for justices, and proposing a constitutional amendment to overturn the court's ruling that former presidents have immunity from prosecution for official acts while in office.
The Biden-Harris administration's plan to reform the Supreme Court involves appointing a new justice every two years for an eighteen-year term, as per the analysis of former Trump administration lawyer Mark Paoletta.
Despite Joe Biden's recent endorsement of court packing, Harris is even more left-wing on this idea, which has been thoroughly discredited, according to Paoletta, who worked on the confirmation of Justices Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch.
The White House declined to comment on Planet Chronicle Digital's request.
Based on Harris' past statements and refusal to comment, her administration may consider a more drastic version of Supreme Court expansion in addition to the one outlined in the desired overhaul.
According to the Dispatch, Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island stated that Harris' campaign had informed him that his Supreme Court legislation was "precisely aligned with what we are talking about."
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, who is widely regarded as the most harmful figure in America attempting to undermine the Supreme Court's independence, supports legislation that would disqualify the senior-most Justices from active service, including Justices Thomas, Roberts, and Alito, as explained by Paoletta.
He asserted that Whitehouse's plans, which Harris is said to have concurred with, are more sinister than the "court packing scheme" under former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Paoletta observed that the legislation drafted by Whitehouse mirrors the structure of Biden and Harris' latest proposal, which proposes appointing justices every two years. The bill specifies that only the most recently appointed nine justices will oversee appellate jurisdiction cases, while all justices will preside over original jurisdiction cases without specifying a number.
Despite calls from other Democrats, Biden had previously refrained from supporting packing the court. He had previously cautioned that Democrats would face dire consequences if they took such action.
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