Kamala Harris joins leftist war against president’s authority to nominate justices

Leftists long have sought their political agenda through the courts rather than through the democratic legislative process because they just don’t have the support for their demands there.

In the courts, a strategically appointed judge or two can deliver their social agenda on a platter. Look no further for an example beyond how a single vote at the Supreme Court mandated same-sex “marriage” for the entire nation even though the Constitution is devoid of any mention of marriage.

Which is one of the reasons they loath President Donald Trump: He appointed three justices to the Supreme Court who generally have delivered opinions aligned with the Constitution, such as when they overturned the faulty Roe opinion from 1973 that fabricated a federal “right” to abortion.

Leftists even have scheme to pack the court with a long list of additional, and leftist, judges in order to gain a majority, and their way.

But now a Democrat nightmare is coming together. Two of the conservative justices on the high court are at an age when they could retire at any time, and Trump still has three years left in office, with the Constitution’s assignment that he propose replacements for openings.

Kamala Harris, the failed 2024 Dem nominee for president, recently took to social media to oppose that provision in the nation’s founding document.

“We must be clear eyed about what is at stake with the Supreme Court right now. We cannot allow Donald Trump to hand pick one, if not two, additional justices. The nation’s highest court must be stopped from becoming even more beholden to him,” she wrote.

We must be clear eyed about what is at stake with the Supreme Court right now. We cannot allow Donald Trump to hand pick one, if not two, additional justices. The nation’s highest court must be stopped from becoming even more beholden to him.https://t.co/RF8GJYwptz

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) April 3, 2026

Commenters responded with the obvious:

“Translation: We gotta stop the duly elected President who beat us in spite of our cheating because it is us who want to stack the Supreme Court with our woke zombie DEI judges. Your gaslighting doesn’t work any more Kamala. We have awaken.”

And, “Didn’t you and sleepy joe want to pack the supreme courts so you could get your way?”

And, “What are you implying by saying if openings happen that the sitting President of the United States ‘cannot be allowed to…additional judges’? This sounds extremely non-democratic. Almost King like. Oh that’s right, you’re the same person that jumped into the last race without democratic primaries. Now it makes sense.”

Actually, there already is a multi-million dollar scheme under way to prevent appointment of anyone Trump would nominate.

It’s coming from a dark-money group called “Demand Justice,” which has been prominent in the leftist court-packing agenda.

Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley explained, “Former Vice President Kamala Harris is rallying Democratic donors to oppose ‘additional justices’ that might be nominated by President Donald Trump ‘before they happen.'”

He continued, “Harris reportedly supports court packing and could use radical groups like Demand Justice to push through an expansion of the Court to produce an immediate liberal majority if Democrats take power. Harris is right about one thing. This is a clear-eyed, remorseless strategy on the left to remove an obstacle to an equally radical agenda. Years ago, Harvard professor Michael Klarman laid out a radical agenda to change the system to guarantee Republicans ‘will never win another election.’ However, he warned that ‘the Supreme Court could strike down everything I just described.’ Therefore, the court must be packed in advance to allow these changes to occur.”

Josh Orton, chief of Demand Justice, explained his project will cost “$3 million to start and $15 million more if vacancies occurred.”

At issue are the posts held by Justices Clarence Thomas, who is 77, and Samuel Alito, who is 76.

The foul-mouthed Democrat strategist James Carville earlier explained the scheme: “I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen. A Democrat is going to be elected in 2028. You know that. I know that. The Democratic president is going to announce a special transition advisory committee on the reform of the Supreme Court. They’re going to recommend that the number of Supreme Court justices go from nine to 13. That’s going to happen, people.”

A leftist president presumably would nominate a long list of leftist compatriots to those posts.

Turley noted that one result of such tactics is the presence of Ketanji Jackson on the court. Nominated by Joe Biden, she was unable during her confirmation hearing to define “woman” and since then has unleashed a long list of radical rants from the bench.

She’s gone so extreme that even her fellow liberal justices have, at times, abandoned her.

Turley noted, “Both conservative and liberal justices have publicly criticized Jackson in past opinions. Jackson has lashed out at her colleagues while adopting analysis that would effectively gut areas like First Amendment jurisprudence. Many of us have found Jackson’s opinions to be unnerving and unhinged. However, liberal groups and Harris would like to replicate her approach to jurisprudence — suggesting not only a packed court but one populated by unrestrained jurists.”

A report at Raw Story pointed out that the political divide in the court would remain 6-3 for conservatives even should Trump have two more nominations, as Thomas and Alito both fall into that category.

What such results would accomplish is to establish those judges on the bench for years to come, depriving a possible future Democrat in the White House of the option of replacing.

Trump has already installed three justices — Neil Gorsuch (2017), Brett Kavanaugh (2018) and Amy Coney Barrett (2020).

Orton warned that conservatives likely won’t make the same the mistakes made under the Barack Obama administration by leftist Justice Ruth Ginsburg.

She refused to retire while the Democrat was in the White House, and died during Trump’s first term, being replaced by the far more conservative Amy Barrett.

“If you think that Trump is willing to leave two of the three justices he thinks are most loyal on the court in their 80s past when he leaves office, you are not paying attention,” Orton said. “There is no way that Donald Trump and Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito would ever commit the fundamental miscalculation about power that we saw from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama and we as a movement.”

Democrats previously opposed Trump’s nominees to the point that they brought in witnesses from the nominees’ past to make unsubstantiated claims about them.