Whaddya Know? A Majority Of Americans Support Expanding The Supreme Court

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Whaddya Know? A Majority Of Americans Support Expanding The Supreme Court

The current Supreme Court system isn't working...

By KATHRYN RUBINO

on September 23, 2022 at 3:15 PM

https://abovethelaw.com/2022/09/whaddya-know-a-majority-of-americans-support-expanding-the-supreme-court/

"SNIP.....

Well, this has got to be a fly in John Roberts’s “I swear the Supreme Court is legitimate” tour: Marquette Law School just published the results of its latest survey on the Supreme Court and fans of the Court won’t be happy.

First of all, overall approval isn’t great — 40 percent of respondents approve of the Court. But, in a post-Roe world, SCOTUS’s tanking polling is nearly a given. What truly stood out is that a majority of Americans — barely at 51 percent, but count it nevertheless — now support expanding the number of justices on the Supreme Court.

I’ll tell you, in history class when we learned about the New Deal and how FDR tussled with the Supreme Court over the expansion of executive power, I never thought Court packing would come back. …Then again, I never thought one party would callously leave a Supreme Court seat open for over a year in an openly political move to steal a place on the Court. Mostly people also probably didn’t expect the vitriolic — and poorly reasoned — decision in Dobbs that stripped millions of people of rights and launched us into a dystopian reality of ever worse stories of women who can’t receive abortion care in their home state. Time makes fools of us all.

Faced with lifetime appointments of jurists who seem way more interested in political victories than in rights and the law, well, diluting the power of each individual justice just may be the fastest way to rebalance the Court. And it looks like most Americans agree.

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[dalton99a]

1. Make it 13 or 15.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. 15 -- so no 1 president (or MoscowMitch fan) can dramatically alter its makeup

[PSPS]

2. I think it's more accurate to refer to it as "unpacking the court."

[yankee87]

3. Add 4 justices

Add 4 justices to have 1 per federal court

[belpejic]

4. +1

[intheflow]

11. This!!

It’s not political, it’s administrative. We had 9 federal courts when it was expanded to 9 judges, it makes sense to expand it to meet that standard.

[SoCalDavidS]

5. These Polls About What Americans Supposedly Want, Mean Shit

The politicians on the other side constantly prove they don't give a shit what the majority of Americans want.

And the bottom line is, so long as these same Americans continue putting repub Assholes in positions of power, there's ZERO chance of getting things like an expanded Supreme Court, or a codified Pro-Choice bill passed through Congress.

[Wanderlust988]

6. I prefer Supreme Court reform

There are some ideas about taking the politics out of the SC entirely. They should add justices, but have them rotating in and out from the federal circuit, so no one knows what they will get for each case and maybe not each Justice will hear every single case. I think that's a more viable, long-term solution for the country and something a vast majority of Americans could support.

If Biden just adds 4 justices, then the next GOP president will add 4 more and it'll turn into a clown show.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. Presidents don't determine the number of Justices.

[SunSeeker]

9. K & R

[vtgranolageek]

10. Majority rules mob rules

The last thing we need in America is a mob rules mentality. Even if the current mob mentality gets it's way, what happens when the voice of the mob goes the other way? We all lose with that scheme.

[Maeve]

12. Majority rule--you mean democracy?

Are you saying the mass of Americans are to be ignored and the elites should run the country?

[ck4829]

15. And what about the Mob of 5 in the SCOTUS?

[ShazzieB]

24. Mob of 6.

Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, Thomas. I don't think Roberts is quite as bat crap crazy as some of the others, but he's definitely part of the conservative majority.

And yeah, what about 'em?

[Elessar Zappa]

17. We have a Bill of Rights

which protect (imperfectly) the rights of the minority. For things outside of those rights, majority SHOULD rule.

[gopiscrap]

22. welcome to DU

[markbark]

13. Make it 13

One for each Federal Circuit (12) and one for the USCoA

[ck4829]

14. K&R

[Zeitghost]

16. I went through the poll data

And don't see a single question about court expansion. Lots of data about specific decisions, topics and justices, but not expansion.

Am I missing something?

[Sympthsical]

18. It's D8 in the data

Given the strength of approval/disapproval, it would still be an uphill task with the electorate.

[Zeitghost]

19. Thanks!

n/t

[dlk]

20. It makes sense to expand SCOTUS to 13, the number of the appellate courts

We also need to ramp up the funding and expand our federal courts. Too often, it takes years and years for a case to be heard and disposed of. That’s not justice.

[SWBTATTReg]

21. And the current idiots running the Supreme Court have no clue as to what's happening in

the actual Country, let alone know what Americans really want etc. They read their stupid Federalist propaganda which is nonsense to most people and thus, use it instead of their own brains to thoroughly analyze the intent of our founders. Instead, what they are doing is slash and burn, what the Courts and Justices over the last 50 years have ruled on, as acceptable, those very same laws, very same things that they all of sudden, say isn't valid, thus, rule it unconstitutional. How does something like this happen, when in fact, they said during their testimony that they wouldn't overturn prevailing law but they did.

How do they excuse this sorry piece of Constitutionality? I sense an intense partisan mindset interfering w/ the rule of law, and they let it come into play, and roost. Shame. Shame on you all, liars and worse.

[onenote]

23. That poll hardly is an overwhelming endorsement of increasing the court

It's 51-49 in favor, which means with the margin of error (not specified) it could just as easily mean more oppose than favor.

Plus, the percentage of those polled who are "strongly opposed" (29) is far greater than the percentage of those "strongly in favor" (18), which is important when it comes to considering the politics of the issue.