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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's stopping Biden from just appointing 5 or so new SCOTUS justices?  There's nothing in the Constitution that says there can only be 9.  There's a statute that says 9, but I'm not sure how that would stop the president and Senate from just appointing and confirming a few more.[/quote]

Look if you are going to increase the court you should fit it. You do not just add 5, you add 100 and have 4-5 groups of 9 judges sit each session. Have clear and enforced conflict of interest rules and Random drawings of judges for each session. It is ridiculous how little they work each year and the amount of back logged cases. [b]Right now it’s just a political court.[/b] [/quote]

I completely agree. We need reform that makes sense, not out of revenge or spite. But I agree that it's a political court - and on both sides. Rehnquist with his gold armbands. Ginsburg with her collars. She should have clearly retired. Breyer should retire. Barrett, Gorsuch, and Kanavaugh are partisan. Thomas seems insane. Alito is overtly political. Roberts is conservative, of course, but seems principled. Kagan and Sotomayor don't seem to speak out publicly very much. They are clearly left leaning, of course.

Anyway, my proposal is this:

-Increase the size of the court to 13, to reflect the 13 appellate courts;
-I think ideally (where ideally is doing a LOT of work) you add justices in as bi-partisan manner as you can - i.e. - Biden gets to add two justices and the next Republican President gets to add two;
-The current justices, plus the four added (maybe) get to serve for life terms or until they retire, but subsequently the Court is a floating court. Meaning, the most senior member of each circuit serves on the Supreme Court for 15 years or until they reach age 75, at which time they can return to senior status or retire.

IMO we should not have people on the court for 30, 40, 50 years.[/quote]

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