Democrats are renewing calls for court packing after the Supreme Court allowed Trump to deport certain illegal immigrants.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Thursday that Trump’s decision to remove Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from certain Haitian and Syrian illegal immigrants granted TPS under former President Joe Biden was not “overtly racial.” Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton responded to the decision by urging Democrats to “reform” the court.
“Rather than protect the hard-working families that contribute to our communities, Trump’s justices are sending them back to the same places they fled. Democrats need to reform the court to preserve our rights and protect TPS families,” Moulton wrote on X.
Democratic New York Rep. Yvette Clarke joined Moulton in blasting the court, saying Congress had waited too long “for this activist court to recalibrate its duty to the law and America’s well-being.”
“SCOTUS is more than eager to prove to this president that it has no interest in serving its constitutional role as a check on the Executive’s power, but instead only as an enabler of its worst abuses,” Clarke wrote. “It’s clear now that this legislative body must seize back the power that our increasingly unequal branches have stolen, and that must start with action to protect the hundreds of thousands of TPS holders whose lives depend upon it.”
Donald Trump’s Supreme Court has ended legal protections for tens of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants.
Rather than protect the hard-working families that contribute to our communities, Trump’s justices are sending them back to the same places they fled.
Democrats need… https://t.co/VYsbhiZcJi
— Rep. Seth Moulton Press Office (@RepMoulton) June 25, 2026
These representatives join a growing Democratic movement in support of court packing. Clarke, the chair of the House of Representatives’ Black Caucus, worked with the House’s Hispanic and Progressive Caucus chairs to create a resolution for “enacting structural changes to the Supreme Court” on Tuesday, according to Politico. The representatives drafted the resolution in condemning the Supreme Court’s ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, which held that Louisiana’s prior 2026 Voting Rights Act (VRA)-compliant congressional map actually constituted unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. (RELATED: Liberal Justices Join Unanimous SCOTUS Ruling Favoring Pro-Gun Groups — But They Couldn’t Leave Well Enough Alone)
“The Court’s rightwing majority has empowered and emboldened President Trump’s attempts to hold on to and expand his power, enabling authoritarian efforts to dismantle Federal agencies, unlawfully fire independent agency heads and civil servants without cause, rescind congressionally appropriated funds, ban transgender servicemembers from the military, and racially profile suspected noncitizens,” the resolution reads.
The resolution proposes “establishing a binding judicial code of ethics for Supreme Court Justices, term limits for Supreme Court Justices, and expanding the size of the Supreme Court.”
The resolution comes after 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposed expanding the court during a “Win with Black Women” podcast last month, according to Fox News Digital.
“I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas, that we say… look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas,” Harris said. “And in that no bad ideas brainstorm … we talk about the idea of Supreme Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court.”