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Kenny Stancil

Progressives call for SCOTUS reform

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks during a news conference with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to announce legislation that would tax the net worth of America's wealthiest individuals at the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 2021. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

After the Supreme Court's deeply unpopular reactionary majority spent its latest term carrying out an assault on fundamental constitutional rights, Rep. Pramila Jayapal on Tuesday reiterated House progressives' demands to reform the nation's chief judicial body, including by adding seats.

"Last week, the Supreme Court finished one of the most consequential and destructive terms in recent decades," Jayapal, D-Wash., chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said in a statement. "The list of precedents nullified and democratic institutions and principles this Supreme Court gutted or fully overturned this term is horrifying."

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