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We Should Expand the Supreme Court

Open to Debate

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The Supreme Court Is a Privileged Machine

The supreme court is peopled with jurists who went largely to one of two law schools. They, all of them, came up through very, very narrow system of how they were selected and what their prior job experience was. And so i just want to echo my partner, it cannot be the case that the only people entitled to have strong opinions on this matter are the people who have a vested interest in preserving the status. The second point i want to make, and this is really essential, is that i believe that at this moment in time, the court is actually a democracy breaking machine. That we have seen the rise of authoritarianism. So much of this has been blessed by

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