Former AG Holder Argues Democrats Should Pack Supreme Court

Former AG Holder Argues Democrats Should Pack Supreme Court
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) is shown in 1936. In 1937 he proposed a scheme for packing the Supreme Court. Keystone Features/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder recently said the next president from the Democratic Party should increase the number of justices from the current nine now sitting on the Supreme Court, to combat what he calls Republicans’ “power-grabbing antics.”

The former Obama-era cabinet member now serves as chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a political action committee that claims “the political system is rigged,” and “the fight to fix it is now.”