If the Democrats take power, will they Create more Supreme Court Justices and New States?
James Carville talks about plans for when Democrats win 2026 Election
James Carville tells Dems to quietly prepare power grab
The veteran strategist advised his party to keep their plans quiet until they win, ‘Don’t run on it. Don’t talk about it. Just do it’
QUESTIONS
Do you think Democrats will add 2 more states and pack the supreme court if they win?
How would Republicans retaliate, both in the short term and long term?
Who are the Democrats that are in favor and opposed to escalation?
ELSEWHERE
Carville: Democrats have to add states, expand Supreme Court to ‘save democracy’
Pack the Union: A Proposal to Admit New States for the Purpose of Amending the Constitution to Ensure Equal Representation, Harvard Law Review
Can Democrats Win The Senate By Adding States? It’s Been Done Before, Five-Thirty-Eight
The case for five new states, open democracy
Transcript
1:16:57
public was in this court. Everyone, everyone is dressed respectfully. I mean, this court has an incredible
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amount of like, you know, cool experience.
1:17:07
I would I would just say uh enjoy it while you can. I mean, I think the Supreme Court is one of the last highly functional institutions in the United
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States. And% you know at some point we’re going to have like 13 or 21 or some crazy number
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of justices up there and get jersey
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after justices there and so enjoy it while it’s still in the current in the current form it’s
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in. Can you imagine showing up with jerseys with the justices names on them and like having sections and like somebody
1:17:38
selling cracker jacks theocracy version of the Supreme Court version. Exactly.
1:17:45
The popularity of the court really depends on whether it’s issuing
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decisions that people agree with. That’s what it comes down to. If like if you ask people whether they like the Supreme
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Court or not, it really just depends on whether they agree with the decisions are recency as opposed to
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the process of the decisions and how well argued it is and all these things that you’re pointing to. And actually
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the the court I mean I just checked the numbers. The court is relatively popular right now. I think that it got as low as
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35% in the 2024 Gallup survey, but I think it’s back up to, you know, like 44
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to 50% favorability, which for something that’s involved in politics is
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relatively high, right? Like you look at Congress or any particular politician, they’re going to be lower than that typically. I just
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felt so assured of like the institution when I visited and saw these guys
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interact and behave and how they behave the process. It was like man this what an amazing country. Yeah.
1:18:48
Well, the reason I say what I say is there was an interview with James Carville recently. Did you guys see this? He saidaw he said look when we get
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power we’re packing the court. So we’re not even going to we’re not going to worry about it. And we’re going to get to 13, right? He
1:19:00
said we’re going to make I think Yeah. They’re going to go from 9 to 13 and then they’re going to create some new states and all the rest of it.
1:19:06
So that’ll be that. Uh enjoy enjoy while it last. Enjoy. Enjoy while it lasts.
1:19:11
Uh by the way, end on a high note. Wait. Yeah. It’s the end of the empire. That’ll be that. By the way, there is uh a Supreme Court
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on I was correct. There is an online ticketing lottery. So we can all sign up and you can get a fourack of tickets. I
1:19:26
think they should make this I we should talk to Howard Lutnik. Maybe he can make this an auction. We get a revenue stream
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from the US. We could sell like 10 of the tickets as courtside seats for 20 grand. Jason, you’re exactly what they’re
1:19:37
trying to protect against. Exactly. Like, how can we how do we monetize the Supreme Court?
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All right, everybody. That’s it. That’s the world’s greatest podcast for you for Chimoth Poly Hatia, David Freeberg, and
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David Saxs. I am the world’s greatest moderator. We’ll see you chief justice.
1:19:54
I’m like the chief justice of the allin podcast. We’ll let your winners ride.