How to Use pack the court in a Sentence

pack the court

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  • To pack the court, Democrats would need more than just the prospect of a conservative court.
    Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Perhaps a crisis will occur, giving us a chance to pack the court, or abolish it.
    Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Progressive efforts to influence and pack the court may in the end destroy it.
    WSJ, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Few -- if any -- really believe the workload is why progressives want to pack the court now.
    Elizabeth Slattery, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
  • There were many equally opposed to the calls to pack the court, with the same suggestions that democracy was at stake.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • That led to calls by some progressives for changes, including term limits and demands that Biden pack the court.
    Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2021
  • The progressives within your party, some of them are pushing to pack the court, to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
    CBS News, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Progressives routinely complain that the Supreme Court thwarts popular will — which is why some want to pack the court.
    Daric L. Cottingham, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • That was interpreted by many as a threat to pack the court with additional justices if Democrats win the White House and Senate.
    Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Progressives have pushed to pack the court with liberal justices or to strip its authority as the last word on constitutional authority.
    Joel Mathis, The Week, 23 Sep. 2021
  • She's used the Supreme Court as a way to paint Greenfield as an extremist, accusing her opponent of supporting efforts to pack the court, or increase the number of judges on the bench.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Relatives of the victims packed the court to hear ​the outcome of a case that has become a search for accountability for the ⁠disaster and a symbol of the slow pace of justice in complex Italian criminal proceedings.
    CNN Money, 16 July 2026
  • Fallon and fellow critics have blasted Biden’s court-packing commission for including members opposed to expanding the Supreme Court and producing a report rather than recommendations on whether to pack the court.
    Houston Keene, Fox News, 18 May 2021

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