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The Importance of a Conversation About the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is not a Democratic body in the sense that it doesn't reflect the will of the voters, and it was composed in an illegitimate manner. I think if your goal is restoring Democratic norms, then one of the ways to restore Democratic norms is to restore democracy to the Supreme Court. There's nothing magical about nine justices; there's nothing to do with anything that was planned out this way. If you had the same number of justices today as you had when this historical accident sort of took place, you would have 13.

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