Dear  John,

On Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt initiated America’s first court-packing scheme.

It was dangerous back then. It’s even more dangerous now..

Why? Because this notion is a direct assault on the Constitution as we know it.

President Roosevelt even admitted as much in his address to the nation 84 years ago when he stated that his court-packing plan “seeks to restore the Court…and to have it resume its high task of building anew on the Constitution a system of living law.”

“Living law?” Yes, you read that right.

In other words, this so-called “living Constitution” doctrine calls for the Constitution’s meaning to evolve and change with new circumstances—without being formally amended.

It would make the Constitution’s words flexible—ripe to be twisted into whatever purpose is more convenient for the power currently in office.

Of course, today’s progressive radicals have picked up right where FDR left off.

And as we’ve watched the government abuse its power to attack our God-given liberties more than ever this past year, we know exactly what a “living Constitution” would mean in 2021:

• More justices on the Supreme Court—we’ve heard numbers as high as 15—appointed by the party in power, of course.
  
  
• More legislating from the judicial bench, rather than following the proper constitutional process of going through the legislative branch.
  
  
• More abuse of government power, putting the whims of the ruling party ahead of the will of the people. 

It’s a grave threat not only to religious liberty, but to the very foundation of our nation. And we MUST stop it.

As committed liberty-loving Americans, we must come together now to call out and reject the dangerous notion of court-packing, and do everything we can to ensure that “We the People” remain in control of our government, as our founders intended.

I hope you’ll join me as First Liberty leads this charge in the coming weeks and months.

We’ll need your prayers, and we’ll need your gracious financial support as we begin to expose the truth about this dangerous idea for all of America to see.

In fact, our efforts begin this Thursday, February 11th, with a special court-packing episode of First Liberty Live!. You can click here to get on the watch list, and we’ll send you the livestream link on Thursday morning.

Together, let’s make sure this year is NOT the one that makes the nightmare of court-packing a reality.

Not on our watch.

Gratefully, 

Kelly

Kelly Shackelford
President, CEO & Chief Counsel
First Liberty Institute

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