; Whereas Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer stated, “Let me be clear: if Leader McConnell and Senate Republicans move forward with this, then nothing is off the table for next year. Nothing is off the table.”; Whereas Representative Joe Kennedy III stated in a tweet, “If [Senate Majority Leader McConnell] holds a vote in 2020, we pack the court in 2021. It’s that simple.”; Whereas Senator Ed Markey stated in a tweet, “No Supreme Court vacancies filled in an election year. If [Senate Majority Leader McConnell] violates it, when Democrats control the Senate in the next Congress, we must abolish the filibuster and expand the Supreme Court.”; Whereas, in July 2019, the Democrat Presidential Candidate Joe Biden said, “I’m not prepared to go on and try to pack the court, because we’ll live to rue that day” and “I would not get into court packing. We add three justices. Next time around we lose control, they add three justices. We begin to lose any credibility the court has at all.”; Whereas the Constitution is based on the principle of separation of powers to provide for checks and balances on each branch of the Federal Government, and expanding the Supreme Court purely for political advantage threatens the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances established in the Constitution; Whereas the Federal judiciary is insulated from political influence through lifetime appointments and other measures to preserve its independence, and an attempt to expand the Supreme Court purely for political purposes threatens the independence and integrity of the Supreme Court and, thus, the entirety of the judiciary it oversees; and Whereas any attempt to increase the number of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States or “pack the court” would undermine our democratic institutions and destroy the credibility of our Nation’s highest Court: Now, therefore, be it