The Supreme Court originally had six justices; at one point it had 10. It's been nine since just after the Civil War, but if Trump rams a new conservative justice through before the election, maybe Democrats should expand the court to restore balance.
on the nomination make sense only by the logic of our increasingly partisan politics.
So Democrats are seriously considering changing the rules if they win both houses of Congress — either by imposing term limits for Supreme Court justices or by adding more seats to the court. But it has been nine justices since then, so adding more would shatter a norm — something we’ve seen a lot of in the Trump years. If Democrats force it through, it’s a little late for Republicans to flap their arms over a lack of bipartisan support.
last year found that voters oppose enlarging the Supreme Court by 57% to 42%, with Democrats evenly divided. Term limits for judges, by contrast, had broad bipartisan support. “This is all about Roe vs. Wade,” Barry Friedman, a professor at New York University Law School, told me. “That’s the promise Trump and McConnell have made to Republican voters and evangelicals.”
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