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May 31, 2024

Cat Among the Pigeons: Leftists Try to Stack Courts in the Name of “Protecting Democracy” and Abortion  

Abortion radicals are throwing the kitchen sink at the 2024 election, which includes ballot initiatives, electing abortion-supporting representatives, and now, stacking state supreme courts.   

This shouldn’t sound new to anyone. Remember in April 2021 when Democrats proposed legislation to expand the U.S. Supreme Court from nine to 13 judges? Indeed, this was purely for the sake of passing radical liberal agendas, including abortion extremism. When that failed, that didn’t mean they stopped. They’re trying again with the same bag of tricks but on a much smaller scale. Instead of the U.S. Supreme Court, it’s state supreme courts. And instead of packing, it’s stacking.   

Two groups, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC) and Planned Parenthood Votes, announced Monday, May 20, their intention to spend at least $5 million on Supreme Court races nationwide, focusing on six states: Arizona, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. 

Don’t mistake “smaller scale” for “less impactful.” With Roe reversed, these state supreme courts could be their ticket to limitless abortion, one state at a time.  

In NDRC’s press announcement, they acknowledge life-loving Republicans wielding political power to get conservative judges to uphold pro-life laws, though they say it in “slightly different” words. Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, stated, “Opponents of abortion access, LGBTQ+ equality, and democracy itself are tilting the scales of justice by stacking courts that will carry out their destructive agendas.”   

The irony would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic. The same abortion-hungry Democrats crying about Republicans “abusing” the system are the same people who live and breathe this tactic. Their agenda breeds destruction by profiting monetarily and politically from dead and innocent preborn babies and harming women. If killing children is “justice,” according to Johnson, does that make lifesaving, pro-life laws protecting both women and children evil?   

Eric H. Holder, Jr., the 82nd attorney general of the United States and chairman of the NDRC, doesn’t see the laughable irony of “demanding justice” while openly supporting court stacking. He states, “The notion that the outcome of a case should be determined by the makeup of a court is antithetical to accepted American jurisprudence. Yet that is exactly what is happening in too many state supreme courts across the country. It is a result of a deleterious, years-long effort by partisan interests to turn state judiciaries into yet another political instrument to force unpopular, minority-supported policies onto the people. This anti-democracy campaign must be stopped.”  

It is genuinely antithetical to demand a halt to pro-life Republican’s “anti-democracy.”  

Democracy is meant to maximize freedom for individuals. Holder offers a solution to said “anti-democracy” by stacking courts with pro-abortion judges – those who are all too willing to restrict the freedoms of the preborn, who are indeed individuals.   

They would never say that, of course. Democrats are masters at wielding unfamiliar language to confuse and persuade voters to support their agendas, which is currently happening in Arizona, Florida, and Maryland through ballot initiatives. It’s not lost on Students for Life Action (SFLAction), which is why we made a way to educate ballot language and undo a ballot signature if a voter made a mistake.   

READ: The Democrats Are Gambling Everything on Abortion Ballot Initiatives – That Could Backfire 

A current example of Democrats trying to skirt the line is in one of America’s abortion capitals, New York. Currently, their ballot initiative is on hold due to a recent judge ruling because, according to The Guardian, “State lawmakers failed to follow procedural rules around passing constitutional amendments, incorrectly approving the amendment before getting a written opinion on the language from the attorney general.”  

Again, this is about manipulative language, but this time, Democrats got caught. Maybe they were hoping no one would notice, but Georgia Supreme Court Justice Daniel J Doyle and SFLAction did. As mentioned, we’ve been sounding the alarms for confusing ballot language in multiple states.   

Not only that, but we offer our praise and support for elected officials who take the Fourth Amendment to its logical conclusion by upholding laws protecting preborn life and onward. It states:   

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”  

This isn’t merely about “wielding political power” – it’s about protecting life by upholding amendments foundational to the Constitution. Republicans, or any politician rather, should use the power allowed to them by the Constitution to protect all citizens. We can use political power to uphold liberty by voting in judges willing to do so – judges like Georgia Justice Andrew Pinson, who won re-election in the Georgia Supreme Court and was described as an “anti-abortion extremist” by Reproductive Freedom for All Georgia.   

Abortion-loving Democrats may claim to stand for freedom and democracy, but pushing for abortion immediately undercuts this notion. They are the cats among pigeons of those truly seeking justice and liberty for all citizens. It is critical to not only point it out but to fight back and maintain the integrity of our liberty-seeking courts.   

READ: The Pro-Abortion Movement’s Weekend at Bernie’s Strategy