If current trends continue, the liberal bloc of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will remain in the minority until at least 2065, barring any immediate reforms.
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A new analysis from a number of law and political science professors finds that, if current trends continue, the liberal bloc of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will remain in the minority until at least 2065, barring any immediate reforms.of “court packing,” or increasing the number of Supreme Court justices beyond the current nine in order to achieve political ends.
in recent years due to undemocratic GOP maneuvering to rush through conservative nominees and block nominees by Democratic presidents. The study was authored by Dan Epps and Kyle Rozema, law professors at Washington University in St. Louis; Adam Chilton, a law professor from the University of Chicago Law School; and Maya Sen, a political science professor from Harvard.
One of the paper’s key findings was that the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc will remain in power for at least the next four decades if current trends continue and lawmakers fail to implement reforms.
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