Expanding The United States Supreme Court

 I have changed my mind on this - as a temporary measure, a stopgap. The New Republic's The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Stronger makes the same argument I made to myself:

At this moment, a bill is on the table to expand the size of the court to 12 associate justices, which would match the number of justices to the number of circuit courts, thus giving each justice primary responsibility for decisions from one circuit. Right now, the justices are overloaded, with too much responsibility. Expanding the court makes pragmatic and logical sense, and could happen gradually; Congress could allow the nomination of two justices now and another two in four years.

I still think that if the Constitution is not amended, then we are stuck in the same mudhole where the Senators collect campaign funds on the issue of Supreme Court Justices.

However, the TNR articles makes a point why action is needed now:

The concerns of 1937, or of 2020, about increasing the size of the court have now been neutralized by this court’s unprincipled overreach. While the full consequences of all the court’s recent decisions are yet to be seen, they will impact all of us, and increasingly so, given the courts’ essential role in enforcing the laws. Regardless of where one stands on the political spectrum, all should now see that the unprincipled political maneuvering that created the current majority on the Supreme Court has undermined our system of government.

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