One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's wishes is that nobody in America would ever, ever consider packing the Supreme Court... And she had the courage to say that.
Today's Democrats and Republicans don't deserve people like RBG and Scalia.
@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris
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Today's Democrats and Republicans don't deserve people like RBG and Scalia.
@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris
npr.org/2019/07/24/744…
"Nine seems to be a good number. It's been that way for a long time," she said, adding, "I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court."
"Several Democratic candidates have indicated an openness, if they were to win the presidency, to adding to the number of justices on the Supreme Court to reduce the power of the current conservative majority. Some would also like to enact term limits for Supreme Court justices."
"The term-limits proposal doesn't worry Ginsburg because she sees it as unrealistic, given that the Constitution specifies life terms for federal judges and because, as she puts it, "Our Constitution is powerfully hard to amend."
"If anything would make the court look partisan," she said, "it would be that one side saying, 'When we're in power we're going to enlarge the number of judges, so we would have more people who would vote the way we want them to. That impairs the idea of an independent judiciary"
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