I used to think we needed to expand SCOTUS by 4 seats, but I no longer believe that. Now I think we need to expand SCOTUS by 20 seats, with rolling term limits, so each president gets to appoint a few.
No bad faith president should be able to negatively impact American policy for the next 50-75 years.
The best idea I saw had 18 year terms and each president may nominate 3 during their term, leading to a 27 member court. My math says 24 members so I must be misremembering something
27 will work, 31 will work, whatever. It just has to be large enough that one treasonous president can’t significantly alter the composition of the court.
It’s important that SCOTUS remain protected from the wild fluctuations in political direction that is common to the presidency. We need stability in the SCOTUS.
I prefer the idea that there is no set number of justices, every president gets to appoint one judge per term. Obviously they should still be approved by the Senate. After the Senate approves the judge, that’s it, someone dies, to bad wait a few years for the next term or president. Sure we might end up with 20 justices if a bunch of young people are appointed but that just opens up the term limit conversation, and that would be great since lifetime appointments shouldn’t be a thing for any position.
I used to think we needed to expand SCOTUS by 4 seats, but I no longer believe that. Now I think we need to expand SCOTUS by 20 seats, with rolling term limits, so each president gets to appoint a few.
No bad faith president should be able to negatively impact American policy for the next 50-75 years.
The best idea I saw had 18 year terms and each president may nominate 3 during their term, leading to a 27 member court. My math says 24 members so I must be misremembering something
27 will work, 31 will work, whatever. It just has to be large enough that one treasonous president can’t significantly alter the composition of the court.
It’s important that SCOTUS remain protected from the wild fluctuations in political direction that is common to the presidency. We need stability in the SCOTUS.
I prefer the idea that there is no set number of justices, every president gets to appoint one judge per term. Obviously they should still be approved by the Senate. After the Senate approves the judge, that’s it, someone dies, to bad wait a few years for the next term or president. Sure we might end up with 20 justices if a bunch of young people are appointed but that just opens up the term limit conversation, and that would be great since lifetime appointments shouldn’t be a thing for any position.