
Blinken calls court-packing 'anti-democratic,' as some Democrats push for it
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in an address on democracy to Ecuadorian students, condemned any move to undermine courts' independence by packing them.
"Consider a country where a leader is elected in a free and fair election and then sets about chipping away slowly but surely, at the pillars of democracy – attacking the free press, undermining the independence of the courts, threatening political opponents," he said. "Now, imagine that leader then seeks to use the levers of democracy to pass anti-democratic reforms, eliminating term limits, packing courts, firing legislators.
"That's the story of more than one democracy in our hemisphere. And it's one of the ways that democracies can come undone," he added.
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