{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggss-statement-us-house-vote-permanently-set-supreme-court-nine", "Congressman Biggs\u2019s Statement on U.S. House Vote to Permanently Set Supreme Court at Nine Justices", "2026-09-03", "2026", "2026-09", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Andy Biggs", "B001302", "biggs.house.gov", "biggs", "https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives failed to pass H.J. Res. 1, Congressman Andy Biggs\u2019s (AZ-05) proposed constitutional amendment to permanently establish the Supreme Court of the United States at nine justices.\n\nBecause H.J. Res. 1 proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passage required the support of two-thirds of the Members present and voting. All except one Democrat opposed this common-sense measure, demonstrating their resolve to expand the Court as soon as they regain the majority.\n\nCongressman Biggs, the sponsor of the resolution, issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cFor years now, Democrats have made their desire to pack the U.S. Supreme Court with liberal justices known. But don\u2019t be fooled \u2013 this desire doesn\u2019t stem from concern that the Court\u2019s workload is too high, or the nation has outgrown the Court. It stems only from a dissatisfaction that the Court hasn\u2019t rubber-stamped the blatantly unconstitutional, leftist, heavy-handed policies they want to impose on the American people.\n\n\u201cThe Court has been set at nine justices for more than 150 years. In accordance with the Constitution, Justices are appointed by the sitting President at the time of a vacancy, and with the advice and consent of the Senate. But Ranking Member Raskin made clear in his remarks: he believes President Trump\u2019s ability to appoint two Justices who more closely adhere to the Constitution than the Justices replaced is simply unfair. In fact, he said the quiet part out loud, accusing President Trump of \u2018stealing\u2019 the two seats and calling it \u2018the rightwing capture of the Court.\u2019 This is a dangerous narrative that undermines the system established by the Founders and creates a slippery slope ending in the total decimation of the integrity of the Court.\n\n\u201cThe reality is that when Democrats are unable to convince the American people of the validity of their own policies and capture the Presidency and majority in both chambers, they demand to change the rules of the game. Just look to the extreme ideas of the socialists being elected to Congress, calling for the transformation of the Court into one elected and subordinate to the legislature.\n\n\"It\u2019s a blessing and a miracle that our great nation celebrated 250 years of self-government. But allowing the Democrats to pack the Court is sure fire way to change the fundamental nature of our Republic and quickly devolve to the socialist dystopia they so badly desire.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-09-04T09:19:37Z", "2026-09-04T09:20:58Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://biggs.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-biggss-statement-us-house-vote-permanently-set-supreme-court-nine"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.041543135419488, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}