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Laelth

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4. I don't like it.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Sep 29, 2020, 02:49 PM

Sep 2020

In my experience, SCOTUS judges almost universally get more liberal the longer they stay on the Court. Term limits don’t help us. Expanding the Court would help us. If there were 15, 17, 19, or 21 SCOTUS judges, each new vacancy would carry much less political weight. Expanding the Court would both stabilize it and, to some degree, de-politicize it.

-Laelth

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Democrats Introduce Historic Bill to Prevent GOP from Having Too Much Control Over SCOTUS [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2020 OP

They need one more clause... cos dem Sep 2020 #1

It's in there if you read the whole article. hedda_foil Sep 2020 #2

Oh, excellent, good to know! cos dem Sep 2020 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author hedda_foil Sep 2020 #5

I don't like it. Laelth Sep 2020 #4

Yep. Even 11 or 13 would be better than 9, and more manageable. nt eppur_se_muova Sep 2020 #7

Good instinct to try something, but sounds like a bad or even very bad solution unblock Sep 2020 #6

Excellent. The hard work to repair the damage Trump and his GOP cronies have inflicted on Nitram Sep 2020 #8