Jaime Herrera Beutler
On Monday, Jan. 25, Congresswoman Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, co-sponsored a bill to amend the United States Constitution that would cap the number of justices on the United States Supreme Court at nine.
“To preserve the impartiality of the Supreme Court, we must fend off dangerous calls to ‘pack the court’ which would severely deteriorate the credibility of the judicial branch,” Herrera Beutler said in a news release from her office. “The Founding Fathers were wise to create a separate judicial branch of government to withstand partisan attacks from the legislative branch, and with recent calls by ultra-liberal Democrats to expand the court to better suit their political agenda, it’s more important now than ever to preserve its integrity. That’s why I’m joining my colleagues in supporting this constitutional amendment to cap the number of Supreme Court Justices at nine.”
