Commission Divided on Expanding Supreme Court

[applegrove]

Commission Divided on Expanding Supreme Court

October 14, 2021 at 10:51 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 10 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/10/14/commission-divided-on-expanding-supreme-court/

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“A bipartisan White House commission agreed that Congress has the legal power to expand the Supreme Court — but the group was divided on whether lawmakers should actually do it,” CNBC reports,

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[notinkansas]

1. We waited how many months (too many)

for this?

I want a refund.

[applegrove]

2. It has been deemed legal. That is big.

[notinkansas]

3. But I think we already knew it was legal.

It's been done before.

[PoliticAverse]

4. There was no doubt it is legal. The size of the Supreme Court is up to Congress.

And Congress has several times changed the number of justices on the court.

[Bettie]

5. The current number was sat at the number of circuit courts

at the time it was set. Now there are 13 circuits and a MUCH larger caseload.

There is ample reason, political considerations aside, to make changes to the court, increase the numbers to allow more cases to be heard and to do away with conflicts of interest by simply not seating justices on panels where they would have personal considerations.

Also, it is FAR past time to make rules with regard to the ethics of accepting gifts from people and organizations who will be arguing before them.

[MichMan]

7. How does that decrease the workload?

Aren't the cases heard by all the justices? If anything, it would seem that adding more justices would make each case take longer as more justices would be asking questions

[Bettie]

8. Have enough justices to run

multiple panels.

So, say 21 justices triples the number of cases heard (3 seven judge panels) with the additional bonus of being able to simply not seat justices on cases where there might be even the appearance of improper influence.

[MichMan]

10. How would they decide what specific justices hear specific cases?

What if those who lean conservative get over represented on a gun rights or abortion case?

[PoliticAverse]

9. That there are 13 circuit courts now does suggest that 13 would be a logical size. n/t

[PortTack]

6. Another post talked about it likely to be seen as a partisan move

If they justices wouldn’t act like political hack in robes, it wouldn’t be needed!

[PoliticAverse]

11. And thus would be stopped by Manchin and Sinema. n/t

[OnDoutside]

12. Manchon already said he's against expansion.