Democratic 2020 Presidential Candidates Open to Packing Supreme Court

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) speaks to reporters after announcing her candidacy for president of the United States, at Howard University, her alma mater, in Washington on Jan. 21, 2019. Al Drago/Getty Images

Nearly half a dozen 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are making the U.S. Supreme Court an issue in their campaigns for the White House.

But with Republican-appointed justices firmly in the majority, 5–4, an increasingly popular proposal is to expand the number of seats at the nation’s highest court.