Just an observation, but if you shuffled this around to 14 members....wouldn’t that mean that Trump would just go and select five more conservative judges and we’d get five episodes of the Kavanaugh-circus environment?
I do have some agreement that term limits might be worth discussing, but I’d want it for the Justices, the House members, and the Senators. I doubt if the Democrats would be happy with that idea. I’d also suggest a max of ten years or forced retirement of any Justice by age 70.
The last time this court packing business came up...during the FDR era, it scared the Justices a great deal. I just don’t see any support via either the GOP or Democrats to change much of anything.
Dems believe they will win in 2020.
They want to let non-citizens vote and have the Supreme Court approve it.
That’d give them Texas and other states with large numbers of the 22 million illegals here in the US.
FDR suggested packing the SCOTUS when they shot down some of his New Deal legislation. One of the Justices pulled a Roberts and sided with the Dems. It was said at the time, “A switch in time saves nine.”
Those are real threats as number of justices isn’t specified in the Constitution.
Term limits for the Judges but not themselves? Ironic.
forced retirement of any Justice by age 70.”””
Same needs to apply to Congress FIRST.
forced retirement of any Justice by age 70.”””
Same needs to apply to Congress FIRST.