the chance to fill a seat that was expected to soon be vacant by reducing the court’s size from six justices to five. But once Jefferson was sworn in, his partisans in the new Congress quickly restored the seat — and Jefferson filled it.As the nation expanded westward, Congress kept pace, adding seats to the Supreme Court each time it created new circuit courts of appeals — for the Seventh Circuit in 1807, the Eighth and Ninth Circuits in 1837 and the Tenth Circuit in 1863.
Thus, when Congress next added a new circuit court in 1929, it left the size of the court unchanged. And when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, relying on dubious claims about the justices’ health and pace of work,to 15 Justices in 1937, it was the pushback from his own party in Congress that largely killed the proposal.
THINK We already have a way to 'pack' the court: Vote for presidents who reflect the values of the American people. I would agree to 18 year term limits for the Supreme Court. Then stagger the terms so there is a new justice every two years.
THINK Your speaking No Doubt, of Barack Hussein O'Bummer and the NaziCrat Sedition Party stacking the Court. Of course PMSNBC is the TraitorCrat Network of Propaganda, Lies and Deceit.
THINK Politics is too tribal now. I don’t see it reversing any time soon if ever again. Court packing is the only realistic shot at balancing it now.
THINK Acting as if 2020 and 2022 are a forgone conclusion? Isn't that how we ended up in the current situation?
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