- The president and CEO of nonprofit organization Planned Parenthood on Sunday called for the expansion of the Supreme Court bench, citing recent attacks “on our democratic rights and our democratic freedoms.”
- The leader of the powerful pro-abortion group, Alexis McGill Johnson, made the comment on MSNBC, suggesting a pipeline of conservative judges in Texas getting cases before the Supreme Court, which also has a conservative majority.
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“You have this lone Texas judge that can now bring cases, you can form shop there, bring cases to the Fifth Circuit, which is also conservative and up to the Supreme Court now, which has a conservative supermajority,” she said regarding the federal Texas judge who ruled in favor of taking a popular abortion medication off the market.
- Pro-abortion group most recently made this argument before when the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, ending federal protections for women who get an abortion.
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Planned Parenthood Leader Calls For Expansion Of Supreme Court
FILE - Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
