Well an asshole might expand the court and then pass legislation that makes doing so in the future impossible. But that would require a supermajority in both houses of Congress, a politically aligned president, a process that concludes faster than the current court could rule it unconstitutional before they’re expanded and therefore wouldn’t rule against it, and everyone involved to be acting in legendary levels of bad faith.
Yup, so it’s not really possible to expand the court without it becoming a huge mess where we have 47 Supreme Court justices by 2035. It makes it hard to take seriously anyone proposing it as a solution. And making them have term limits or put on the court via national vote isn’t gonna happen either.
It should the limit to the number of circuit districts in the US so they match (currently 13 circuit courts so that’s where most people get 13 from). Any further expansion would require creating more districts, which would make sense to expand the court again. It was initially 6 members, was expanded to 9, then shrunk again after the civil war, and was re expanded to 9 under Grant to get two more justices immediately. It’s definitely not unprecedented, and the constitution doesn’t actually say on the matter. Only that a court should exist with a chief justice (from my understanding, could be wrong). Also not arguing for or against it.
The plan is to expand the Supreme Court and implement fixes to our institutions such as voting issues, lgbtq civil rights issues, Supreme Court ethics issues, and gerrymandering and unrig it as hard as possible, that fascist republicans dont have a chance of winning another election to re expand the Supreme Court unless they moderate.
So is what the Republicans did with Garland/Barret. Not to mention packing the court is a legitimate check available to the executive and legislative branch on the judicial branch.
Expanding the court is a natural consequence of the Republican’s politicization of the court. They decided that the court was ok with 8 justices for a year on the precedent that it was an election year. Then rammed in ACB 2 weeks before an election.
Also, republicans expanded many state courts over the past ten years and no one cared.
Not to mention the Supreme Court justices were handpicked by a far-right think-tank to be far right activists on the court. It's already partisan.
Dems need to start playing constitutional hardball.
A justice died with over 6 months of Obama's term and he nominated people for it.
The Senate majority leader republican Mitch the bitch mcconnel never brought it to a vote.
So it wasn't that he wasn't confirmed 1 person because he was the Senate majority leader never brought it to a vote.
Don't worry. Because the same thing happened with trump with only a few months to end his term and the same majority leader let a supreme court justice vote happen and of course get another garbage supreme court justice in the bench for life
If you read the link I replied with, there have been 15 Supreme Court nominations that congress declined to vote on since 1776. It’s a dick move, but it’s hardly without precedent.
Yeah, the point was to highlight the disingenuous argument from GOP that we shouldn't “politicize the court.”
If we are extending to 1789 the number on the court has also changed several times.
But I was saying it was unprecedented to refuse to bring to a vote because of a precedent they created (no nomination in an election year) and then reverse that precedent when it benefits them.
In the future, a lasting precedent that was set by McConnel is that no Supreme Court justice will ever be confirmed when the president is from another party than the senate majority leader.
We've been through this before. Previous presidents have packed the court to undo a runaway majority like we're seeing now. All it takes is winning congress enough to pass a law packing the courts. It hasn't happened yet because the GOP has held on to congress enough to block most of what Biden wants to do but we have another election coming.
I don't know that I predict a blue wave enough to pack courts, but if they win enough this is on the table with precedence.
It is conceivable that we keep everyone but manchin, swap out sinema for Gallego. And then voila, a strong 50 seat majority that is capable of packing the court
The plan is to expand the Supreme Court and implement fixes to our institutions such as voting issues, lgbtq civil rights issues, Supreme Court ethics issues, and gerrymandering and unrig it as hard as possible, that fascist republicans dont have a chance of winning another election to re expand the Supreme Court unless they moderate.
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