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It matches the circuit court numbers and should be done.

And in your system of "separation" of powers, it's bonkers that the president gets to nominate judges. For the whole federal judiciary.

Match the circuits plus a lead. Of course, one circuit has California AND most of the west, that should be split into at least one more circuit.

Absolutely. All six Republicans have demonstrated contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law.

We can have 20 supreme court justices, but without sc reform, it is pointless. The so-called supreme court is a rogue court issuing unconstitutional "rulings"... Their legitimacy is trash and they are now defunct by their own doing.

13 matches federal circuit courts. We have 3 times citizens as we had when 9 was "official" number of justices. We've changed numbers over 250 years. It's time. We can flex number from 10-13 to allow for official recruiting, illness or death; add term limits; set clear rules & consequences.

I’m fully on board with this idea. How do you see the timing playing out for a proposal like Clyburn’s?

Well better replace some Dem Legislators or they will piss that opportunity away when it happens- if, despite their kicking many cans down the road- we can get to that opportunity. Because right now- it would be 4 more sheet wearing heritage goons

First, address the root cause of the issue Elect 2 Senators from each Court District, they are the Judicial Oversight Committee and produce a list of SC Justice candidates President selects nominees from that list Impeach corrupt SCJs Then expand to 13 Each year, the most senior SCJ must retire

mfers would rather add more unelected dictators to the fascist council than just abolish the fascist council entirely smh clown country 🤡

13 Justices honestly makes sense! The reason there are currently 9 is the last time the size of the Court was set, there were only 9 Federal Circuits. Today there are 13.

I hope the New York Times reports this with the same gravity they offer when reporting on Google Map’s sanewashing Trump’s bullshit.

13 Circuit Courts SHOULD = 13 SCOTUS Justices. It's reasonable.

#ExpandTheCourt Why we need at least 4 more 1869-US population was 31M, SC expands from 7 to 9 Justices (1 per each Federal District) 2025-US population is 350M & now 13 Federal Districts 1- open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... 2- suecohen.substack.com/p/can-we-res... #ReformTheCourt

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STOP FUCKING TALKING ABOUT THIS WHILE TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!!! If that jackass realizes that HE can expand the Court, he’ll add FOUR MORE Trump-ass-kissing 30-year-olds! Wait until that fucker is GONE, or it will become WORSE than it is NOW!!!

My concern is Trump will expand it first and stock with 4 more MAGA servants. If Republicans hold the Senate, it wouldn’t surprise me if they ditched the filibuster to push this through next year.

I’d settle for 3 if two of them weren’t fascists

13 Appellate Courts, 13 Supremes, it’s structural logic.

Clyburn says a lot of interesting things. Did you know that he is on the re ord blaming black Americans for Harris' loss? Lots of interesting opinions from that guy

Biden did some good things during his 4-year term, but he also missed some opportunities. 2021–2023 Democrats held the White House and majorities in both the House and the Senate. 2023–2025 Republicans won control of the House in the midterms, while Democrats kept control of the Senate.

No need to expand the court. The racist white demographics particularly in the former confederate south will collapse this year. Maga is right anything that doesn't adapt get replaced. Follow the numbers. There's no economic or political solutions just like in Apartheid South Africa

America says…🤬 now!!

yeah imagine if the GOP manages to stuff it with 4 more right winger. What are you going to do, send the military?

Now we’re gonna hear about all these “6/7” decisions.

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The Constitution supports it, so why not?

The point is there’s 13 circuits. There used to be 9, then 10 and then they said “hold on, this looks like everyone will have representation on the Supreme Court, especially for appeals, surely that would be unconstitutional! So, let’s just pretend we can’t count for at least 150 years.”

And TERM LIMITS

666 would be more apt

IT'S PEAK

Absolutely positively this goes without saying...right now SCOTUS is corrupt

How about 18- or 24-year terms?

When the Honorable Representative James Clyburn speaks, People listen... WE CHEER: "MORE ON THE COURT! MORE ON THE COURT! MORE ON THE COURT!"

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Requires a Constitutional Amendment - *much* harder to achieve.

100%. If you can be too old to be a military officer, you can be too old to be a Justice.

It matches the number of lower courts as it had in the past. 13 docket courts, 13 judges.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the # of Supreme Court justices was tied to the # of federal appeals courts. There used to be 9. Now there are 13. Expanding to 13 makes perfect sense.

There are 13 district courts, so why not 1 supreme court justice per district?

Hope he explained why…

I didn't see this. Did term limits get addressed?

pretty sure every non-magat supports the expansion of SCOTUS. it's pretty obvious that it is broken in its current form. clear them out and start fresh with actual, enforceable limitations in place.

Or just impeach justices when they commit crimes. It’s called law and order….congress should try it sometime.

How about if we just prosecute the ones taking bribes?

The right idea, but a terrible answer. There are 13 US Court of Appeals districts so 13 aligns. That’s the better answer.

Prosecute Roberts, Alito, and Thomas for accepting bribes.

Please don’t give the orange 🍊 clown 🤡 any ideas.

One for each District. It's logical (not that that matters with this admin.).

Sigh. USA will never fix it's problems until they recognise the actual problem. It is not the number of presiding judges that is the issue. It is the lack of checks and balances to ensure that the judges remain apolitical and have no conflicts of interest or integrity issues.

Inconceivably rare Clyburn W

Save you from what? Seems like we all good and everyone that needs saving is trying to break in.

Do you do anything other than whine

Urm, what? I am saying we as voters need to make any anti-progess holdouts as afeared of losing their seats as formerly anti-MAGA Republicans.

I loved Bernie, but he should have retired a decade ago now.

Not super familiar with Clyburn, but I must say what I remember about him the most is that he picks his moments. Pretty shrewd in this case

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Each party should put in a candidate for the Supreme Court, and the American voters chose the person to serve on the court.

Or maybe his lucky number - what’s that? For all the thinking going into his recommendation.

Sure. Why not 47?

Keep going. Can I get a 27? time.com/5338689/supr...

If corporations are people, can robots vote?

The number of Supreme Court justices should be equal to the number of Circuit courts. Each Circuit gets its own justice. No Circuit is more or less important than the others. There are 13 Circuits.

There should be one for each district and expand accordingly.

They need to stop before Trump heard this bullshit and takes that argument as his own! Imagine a 10-3 Trump court instead of a 6-3 😡

He sucks. DemStablishment tool. Went all the way to Michigan to endorse the loser.. should mind his own business.

How about placing enforceable rules of conduct on Supreme Court justices and impeaching & removing the corrupt ones instead?!? The last thing we need is to add 4 more rubber stamps to the courts.

Now do term limits and Ethics too

10 year job no more serving 40 years. Hell no!

Agree

Term limits for Supreme Court Justices

I agree

Yes, a justice for each circuit.

Pointless, unless Clyburn thinks that the GOP will never hold a majority again. The problem isn't the number - it's the partisan political process that determines what political color the appointee is ... and the difficulty inherent in replacing them.

💯💯💯 how about 14?🧐

Its almost like the left has been correct all along.

Say it over and over and over! It will make the R's head explode. Supposed to be 1 supreme judge for the 13 circuit judges

Power concedes nothing without a demand. Congrats to everyone who is currently putting the establishment’s feet to the flames.

MORE IMPORTANTLY - TERM LIMITS!!! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!

1 per Federal District that would be 13, but make it 9 justice rotation on hearing cases. One more thing Justices must be nominated from a panel of independent judges, the president can pick from that panel. No politicians involved!Also that panel can have a justice removed for crimes 

That’s a nice plan when his party gets their shit together… Now.. what’s Democrats plan when 🍊 interferes in the midterm?

This fucking clown in AIPAC puppet and a Big Pharma corporate shill! Fuck him!

13 federal judicial districts so 13 SCOTUS justices sounds right.

Just don’t do it until a dem is president or tRump will get to appoint more

Why just 13? Add all 179 circuit judges to 9 current SCOTUS members all with lifetime tenure. Pick & recuse 13 *random* judges from nationwide pool for each appeals court case. Those *random* 13 judges = SCOTUS *for that case* if it goes that far. No amendment needed. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Fair point, for sure. I am so tired of the blatant corruption, I’ll grasp at anything. You’d think the publicity of their (the SCOTUS crooks) would be enough…

Let’s do both. 13 with term limits.

10. Jack Smith 11. Eric Holder 12. Hillary Clinton 13. Barack Obama

The Constitution does not give life terms per Article III Section 1: "The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour,..." A strong ethics rules needed and a method for enforcing those rules, and removing Justices that do not abide by them..

A baker’s dozen comprising 6 half-baked flakes.

13 makes lot sense.. why? 13 Federal COURTS.. thus your NUMBER should MATCH the NUMBER of FEDERAL COURTS.. vs. this RANDOM BULLSHIT.. TERM LIMITS and ETHICS.. and my big ONE.. APT via FEDERAL COURTS.. I judge per.. by peers for TEN YEARS!! WHY? you get JUDGES not hacks from SENATE

Slippery slope time. Trump has 2 more yrs, this isn't the time 'agree in advance' that the SCOTUS should be expanded.

*Term limits* are what would require an Amendment as all Article 3 judges are lifetime appointments. (Though there might be legal basis for a rotating panel selected from the broader Circuit Courts, which could get closer to your proposal).

Trump may decide to do it during the lame duck if he loses the midterms. If it's a good thing to do, it shouldn't matter who does it.

Why can't the establishment @democrats.org just lay out the obviously sensible argument that there are 13 circuits therefore there should be 13 judges? The middle is rapidly losing support.

To say nothing about fixed terms, an enforceable code of conduct, and tossing the corrupt ones into prison.

13 is a terrible number. It would barely put the liberals in charge with a 7 to 6 majority. Lose one liberal on a big case, or have a future Republican president appoint a conservative, and we are back where we are today.

I also agree to Supreme Court expansion!

And each district should have a justice chosen from those districts.

As long as supreme & fed court judges are appointed by political parties, there will be no free & fair justice. You could put 50 judges in the SC & it will still be bent. It needs disbanded & a totally independent & non political system of judicial appts & oversight implemented.

He also said he erred in voting for the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. “He has gone from an angry leftist [in college] to a very angry rightist.” Seems like he voted for the color of his skin instead of the content of his character.

1 for each circuit.

#HakeemJeffries will say he is against expanding the Supreme Court during his next appearance.

We can move on from the “I support” rhetoric. Let’s get to : “here are SCOTUS reforms we will invoke and when.

The number of justices on #SCOUTS is *supposed* to be the same as the number of district courts. We have 13 district courts so there should be 13 justices. The Court was never expanded because Americans are stupidly superstitious about the #13

Wasn’t the court expanded to nine(9) justices because there were nine(9) districts? There are thirteen(13) now.

Exactly, there should always have been one justice for each Appellate Court they represent. bsky.app/profile/atru...

So do I. 13 is good.

Don't expandn it -shrink it to 5. Impeach and remove Roberts and 3 other hyper reactionary Trump political agents pretending to be justices.

How about increasing the number of Representatives as well. No amendment needed

One for each original Colony, and or the 12 Federal Reserve Districts with a tie breaker..

Agree starting in 2027 along with term and age limits. Same with congress and senate elections.