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In reply to the discussion: Supreme Court says N.Y. gun law is too restrictive, violates right to carry guns outside home [View all]in2herbs
(2,945 posts)clear to me that even the Democrats in Congress think of us as "others." People are clamoring to expand the court, and I agreed until today's opinions. IMO the action to take to reverse the course the conservative judges have shoved on this country is not to expand the justices on the USSC but to shrink its budget so that is suffocates. Nothing in the Constitution demands 9 justices.
We have to accept that USSC judges have life time appointments, but there is no law or constitutional guarantee that the salary and benefits that USSC judges receive cannot be modified by Congress. The USSC budget is obtained from Congress.
The USSC is corporation-friendly so address the USSC issue the same as corporations do when they want to get rid of employees --- through pay/benefit reductions or layoffs. Start with a 50% USSC budget cut. If the reduced funding is insufficient to sustain all of the 9 current justices and their staff, well then, some of the justices will have to be succumb to a lay off, or they'll have to accept significantly lower pay and benefits and perform the work that their staff currently performs. The USSC also should be prohibited, for example, from moving money around and using funding for maintenance on salaries and benefits.