In the Senate, oppose activist judges and any court-packing attempt to expand the Supreme Court.

Ted Budd · North Carolina · Republican

oversight impact 0.68 specificity 0.82 extraction confidence 95%

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In the Senate, Ted will: Oppose activist judges and any court-packing attempt to expand the Supreme Court.

The candidate commits to oppose court packing and activist judges.

Issues - Ted Budd for Senate
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Evidence

The campaign issues page says, "In the Senate, Ted will: Oppose activist judges and any court-packing attempt to expand the Supreme Court."

Campaign promise explicitly committed Budd to oppose activist judges and Supreme Court expansion/court-packing.

never same_term

Issues - Ted Budd for Senate
campaign · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 98%

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Congress.gov lists Sen. Ted Budd as an original cosponsor of S.J.Res.16, a joint resolution "to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices."

Budd took concrete Senate action to oppose court expansion by cosponsoring the Keep Nine constitutional amendment.

partial same_term A for effort

S.J.Res.16 - Cosponsors | Congress.gov
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Budd said "some district judges have overstepped" and that "these activist judges are undermining our nation’s constitutional balance of power" while joining the Judicial Relief Clarification Act.

Budd publicly advanced legislation aimed at limiting nationwide judicial orders and framed it as a response to activist judges.

partial same_term A for effort

Senators Budd, Grassley, Colleagues Introduce Legislation to Clarify the Scope of Judicial Relief
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Assessments

delivered same_term

Budd promised to oppose activist judges and attempts to expand the Supreme Court once in the Senate. During his Senate term, he took concrete actions matching that promise: he cosponsored S.J.Res.16 to require a nine-justice Supreme Court and joined legislation framed as a response to activist judges limiting nationwide judicial relief. Because the promise was to oppose these developments rather than to secure final enactment of a specific law, these Senate actions satisfy the promised outcome in the same term.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%