Elizabeth Warren wants to expand Supreme Court by four seats, says it has been ‘hijacked, politicized, and delegitimized by Republicans’

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is calling on Congress to expand the Supreme Court by four seats. Warren claims that an expansion of the highest court in the land is necessary because it currently “leans into extremism.”

On Wednesday, Warren tweeted, “Republicans have hijacked America’s Supreme Court to threaten basic liberties, settled law, and the very foundations of our democracy. There’s only one way to rebalance this broken institution and restore its integrity: We must #ExpandTheCourt.”

The liberal senator from Massachusetts is especially concerned over the recent report that conservative Supreme Court justices have signaled that they could roll back the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision on abortion rights.

“Republicans steal power to ram through an extremist, unpopular agenda. Basic protections like Roe v. Wade, supported by 70 percent of Americans, are hanging by a thread,” Warren said in the video. “And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”

Warren called the Supreme Court “radical,” and claimed it “opened floodgates for corporations to spend unlimited sums of money to buy our elections.” – READ MORE