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The Case for 29 Supreme Court Justices

Notes from America with Kai Wright

CHAPTER

The Most Popular Court Reform Plan Out There

Ellie Mistall: I know it sounds fanciful to ask for 20 when the starting offer from the establishment of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and President Joe Biden is zero. But like a doctor with poor bedside manner, I'm less interested in people's feelings and more interested in fixing the problem. If you give me two justices or four justices, I can reverse a number of conservative policies that they've shoved through a Supreme Court that has been illegitimately packed with Republican appointees," she says. "I can reestablish a center left pro democracy majority at least until those new justices die at the wrong time"

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