Squad renews court reform calls in wake of landmark SCOTUS rulings

In the wake of major Supreme Court rulings on affirmative action and religious liberty, members of the far-left Squad have renewed their calls to reform the judiciary.

Frustrated with the decisions, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warned that the court could undermine the nation's democracy if left to continue making unchecked, sweeping rulings.

"The courts, if they were to proceed without any check on their power, without any balance on their power, then we will start to see an undemocratic and, frankly, dangerous authoritarian expansion of power in the Supreme Court," she said on CNN's "State of the Union" over the weekend.

The lawmaker further contended that one of the ways Democrats might seek to check the court was to aggressively pursue investigations into the justices' ethics disclosures in the wake of reports from ProPublica on the justices' disclosures and possible conflicts of interest.

The New York Democrat has previously suggested court reform, doing so in the aftermath of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision that overturned the constitutional right to an abortion, though nothing came of it at the time.

AOC's calls found support from Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley, another member of the Squad, who said the justices "continue to overturn the will of the majority of the people and to make history for all the wrong reasons, legislating from the bench and being political from the bench," per Politico.

"I think everything should be on the table," she said of possibly expanding the number of justices on the court, saying the bench "has been emboldened in rolling back the hands of time, undermining and rolling back what should be fundamental civil human rights. So everything should be on the table: reform and expansion."

President Joe Biden has rejected calls to expand the court in the wake of decisions that went against his policies, saying that to do so would politicize the court even further.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on Twitter.