If Democrats pack the court, what’s to stop Republicans from doing it? Before you know it, we’ll have fifty judges on the Supreme Court.
Campus Reform reports:
Berkeley law school dean: Democrats would be ‘justified’ in packing the Supreme CourtThe University of California-Berkeley law school dean wrote an op-ed in which he advocated for additional judges to be added to the Supreme Court, while several other professors want to repeal Article II of the Constitution that would allow immigrants not born in the U.S. to become president.Dean and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley Erwin Chemerinsky wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times advocating for Democrats to expand the size of the Supreme Court, a concept referred to as “pack the court,” if they take back control of the White House and Senate on November 3.Chemerinsky explained in his op-ed why the U.S. should increase the number of justices from nine to thirteen. Chemerinsky discussed how there isn’t much that Democrats can do if President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Ginsburg, Judge Amy Coney Barrett, is confirmed.“One way for Democrats to make clear they will not tolerate Republicans trying to fill this seat in advance of the election would be for them to pledge that, if they take the White House and Senate in November, they will increase the size of the Supreme Court to 13 justices,” Chemerinsky wrote. He went on to point out that the number of justices isn’t in the Constitution, but is rather determined by law.The idea of packing the court first came up in 1936 by Franklin D. Roosevelt to help pass a piece of legislation.
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