Loosely Speaking: Court packing

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Saturday, October 31, 2020

Court packing

The Republicans have themselves packed the courts--the whole federal court system, not just the Supreme Court. https://www.alternet.org/2020/10/the-art-of-court-packing-trump-has-appointed-almost-one-fourth-of-all-active-federal-judges-in-the-us/ There is, in fact, a legal and historic foundation to increasing the Supreme Court to 13. It was established with 9 when there were 9 circuits in the federal courts system, and one Supreme Court seat for each of them. Now there are 13 circuit courts, so... Sign in to see full entry.

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