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Sep 21, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Democrats are starting to feel pressure from the left to consider increasing the number of Supreme Court justices if Joe Biden wins the presidency and his party takes the Senate. blawgo.com/ZJrWLsq
But court packing wouldn’t be easy.

Democrats would have to win control of both the White House and the Senate—and first eliminate the filibuster, assuming they don’t have a 60-vote majority.
Expanding the number of seats on the nine-member U.S. Supreme Court was endorsed over the weekend by:

➡️ Sen. Ed Markey
➡️ House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler
➡️ Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder
Nothing in the Constitution sets the court’s membership at nine, but a push for expansion could face a powerful opponent: Joe Biden.

On campaign trail, Biden said he opposed expanding the Supreme Court.

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