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Corey Gardner, Susan Collins, Jodi Ernst, Martha McSally, Thom Tillis, Lindsay Graham, David Purdue and John Cornyn are going to be praying that Trump nominates someone with an absolutely faultless and uncontroversial record.
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Isn't all this making if imperative that the Dems somehow flip the Senate and then put forward some Supreme Court nominations of their own, since I understand there is no law that says the number of judges has to be capped at nine?
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Increasing the number is called packing the court. Not sure of the legality of that, but I don’t think the senate and president could just do that.
But having a bigger court would help. It’s absurd that so much rides on the healthy of one person. Shorter appointments could help too or letting the House vote on it also, maybe.
There are also proposals to abolish the Supreme Court. I’m not sure how that would work.
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https://time.com/5338689/supreme-court-packing/
"There’s nothing sacred about the number nine, which isn’t found in the constitution and instead comes from an 1869 act of congress. Congress can pass a law
changing the court’s size at any time. That contrasts it with other potentially meritorious reform ideas, like term limits, which would require amending the constitution and thus are unlikely to succeed. And countries, with much smaller populations, have much larger high courts. In 1869, when the number nine was chosen, the U.S. was roughly a tenth of its current size, laws and government institutions were far smaller and less complex, and the volume of cases was vastly lower. Supreme Court enlargement only seems radical because we have lost touch with the fundamentals of our living, breathing constitution. The flawed debate over court-packing is an opportunity to reexamine our idea of what a Supreme Court is, and some foundational, and wrong, assumptions."
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