ICYMI: Senator Bradley Leads Wisconsin Effort to Stop Court Packing

Wisconsin Senator Julian Bradley was featured in a column by Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard on Tuesday about how states are pushing back against President Biden's court-packing plans.

Read an excerpt from the story below:

Backlash in states starts over Biden court-packing scheme

Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner

July 20, 2021

At the very moment today that President Joe Biden’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States was meeting to consider adding likely Democratic justices, an effort started in Wisconsin to lock in the current makeup of the court — and 150 years of history.

Newly elected Wisconsin state Sens. Julian Bradley and Eric Wimberger and Rep. Tony Kurtz said they started to circulate a resolution to block expanding the court beyond nine judges.

While some other states have passed simple resolutions on the issue, their plan, dubbed “Wisconsin Keep 9 Resolution,” calls for a constitutional convention to debate an amendment that would require nine states.

In a memo seeking co-sponsors shared with Secrets, the trio wrote, “Legislators in other states have urged their members of Congress to amend the constitution. However, as a legislature we do have the power to call for a constitutional convention directly, and that is what this joint resolution does.”

Bradley told Secrets in a statement, “Wisconsin cannot stay silent while President Biden, Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer discuss packing the Supreme Court because they don't like the justices. We must exercise our power and call for a constitutional convention to say the Supreme Court will have nine justices -- period.”

Read the full column here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/backlash-in-states-starts-over-biden-court-packing-scheme