It will bring short term pleasure but long term pain. The next time Republicans take over, they'll just add 20 Trumpist judges. It's just going to be a silly arms race until we get 100 justice on the Court. This is not serious and will be bad for the long term future of our democracy.

We need a plan to make the Court's some of the justices are assigned randomly and term limits. For our country to continue, we need to have a Court where no one can predict an outcome...either way. There are many ideas of reforms that I support that are more durable that just simply add justices and go home. This is not healthy in the long term.

In fact, fearless governance that includes killing the filibuster and expanding the court could give Dems the trifecta for a generation.

If Dems could ram through progressive bill after bill without being obstructed by the filibuster or having the new laws overturned by SCOTUS, tangibly improving the lives of all Americans, voters would reward them with landslide victories and republicans wouldn’t get an opportunity to counter-expand the court for decades (see FDR and the New Deal).

I personally favor expanding to 21 justices- the bigger the court, the less power and influence a single Justice can have, and it will make it much more difficult to have predictable ideological voting blocs on the court.

"We cannot govern out of fear of what republicans might do."

That can't be said too may times.

That is what's wrong with so many in our party. They want to govern out of anger. It's not about what the Republicans might do. It's about building respect for the Court again. I actually don't want a Court that just rubber stamps EVERYTHING the Dems want. Our party can pass very extreme legislation. If you don't believe me, look at the bills coming out Sacramento that are even too extreme for Gavin to sign. He regularly vetoes crazy shit the Assembly passes. Our party can be just as extreme as the MAGA.

I don't want a Court to just go along with EVERY Dem law. That's what would happen if you have 4 or 9 justices. The country as a whole will not have faith that the Court is not political.

I want Dems to govern out of conviction and determination, without fear or hesitation, Like Whitmer did with a one seat majority in the state legislature. In one year they rammed through bill after bill- codifying Roe, raising minimum wage, protecting labor rights, voting rights, and so much more.

That can’t be done at the federal level unless the filibuster dies and the court is expanded.

Without court expansion, there can be no restoration of democracy, no repair of the damage of the Trump era. The only “long game” is waiting decades and hoping a conservative Justice dies while a Dem is president and has a Dem senate, meanwhile voters perceive Dems as feckless and unable to govern.

Your “long game” politics is akin to the “go slow” approach of Dixiecrats on civil rights, and is unacceptable, politically or morally.

Also, I want 6 seats added (so 15 total justices), not 4 (13 total justices). Or even 12 to 16 (16 as absolute MAX) added IF need be.

15 to even 25 total SCOTUS justices is manageable.

Beyond that is problematic.

I prefer 21 as the max total (to 25), but 15 total on SCOTUS would be close to ideal IMHO.

9 total is simply too small, as we are seeing now with the RW gaming that number over the years.

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assigned to. They can conduct hearings and everything else via zoom, etc. Justices should also be assigned cases they have proven experience in.

100 justices on the court would not be bad for the long term future of our democracy. Why would it be? The population is 10 times larger than it was when the number of Supreme Court justices was set at 9.

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form political alliances as they have been doing.

That would require a constitutional amendment though, especially the latter.

like this. The only thing that has saved us so far is their incompetence.

Given you need a two thirds majority in each chamber AND three quarters of states to approve. I could maybe squint and see one chamber of Congress getting that kind of majority, but not both. And certainly not approval in 38 states.

2/3rds majority in Congress and 3/ths the states.

But of course you knew that.

What if the Republicans voted to expand the court to thirteen justices right now while they control the House and the Senate and Trump is in power? Would Trump then get to immediately nominate 4 additional justices? How would that even work?

Just as Dems would.

The difference is, Dems would expand the court to prevent laws that restore rights and benefit working Americans from being overturned, and republicans would expand the court to remove rights and damage democracy.

Voters would notice the difference,

See the problem?

Set them up in 9 judge courtrooms but rotate them regularly so forming political alliances are more difficult.
Make them term limited.
Restrict the hell out of their grifting with real penalties for infractions.

It isn't too hard if we have the political will.

How would you feel if the orange anus announced tomorrow that the repute’s were going to add 20-30 judges. Ow because the population has grown as you suggest?

And probably the worst of the reform ideas because it’s not actually reform. It makes big problems bigger without solving any of the actual problems.

Democrats take it to 12. Republicans take it to 15. Democrats take it to 18.

We would probably be better off with a smaller court and reducing it to 7.

If people want real change, time limit the appointment, enforce a code of conduct and ethics, require more disclosure.

A larger court means each justice has less power and influence, and makes more difficult to form predictable voting blocs.

What people don’t realize is, if Dems expand the court, and govern fearlessly and unhesitatingly , voters won’t give republicans the trifecta for decades (see FDR and the New Deal), by which time Dem laws and programs will be untouchable third rails.

His video should be on how Democrats must insure that Republicans can never again hold power 🔋 in perpetuality. That's been the Party's biggest mistake over the past 25 years.

They swore an oath. They failed.

Only a completely corrupt justice would rule that money equals speech.

So pack the fucking court and drive on.