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Political Cornflakes: ‘Everything is on the table’: Democratic presidential hopefuls eye remaking the Supreme Court to stem Republican advantage

A series of White House hopefuls are expressing new interest in remaking the Supreme Court as payback for the Republican transformation of the judiciary over the past four years. Democrats are eager to chip away at the GOP’s growing advantage, and Sens. Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Kristen Gillibrand say they wouldn’t rule out expanding the court, imposing term limits on judges and more if elected president in 2020. “We are on the verge of a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court,” said Harris, D-California. “We have to take this challenge head on, and everything is on the table to do that.