Democrats Introduce Bill to Expand Supreme Court, but Reception Is Tepid

Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), center, and Reps. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), introduce a bill that would add four seats to the Supreme Court, in Washington on April 15, 2021. James Lawler Duggan/Reuters

A group of Democrats on Thursday unveiled their bill to expand the Supreme Court, but party leaders showed little support and Republicans assailed the proposal as radical.

The “Judiciary Act of 2021“ would add four seats to the nation’s top court, effectively flipping the balance from 6–3 in favor of conservative-appointed justices to 7–6 in the opposite direction.