Democrats to introduce bill to expand Supreme Court from 9 to 13 justices

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Golly. I wonder how Republicans would respond the next time they're in power?

They wont be ever again once either voterID is banned or undocumented citizens are allowed to vote

That’s kinda racist. Believe it or not, a lot of people from ethnic minorities actually vote Republican.

It isn't racist; the above commenter never mentioned race. Who are undocumented immigrants going to vote for (if allowed), people who campaign on giving them things or people who don't?

If they can vote, they already won the issues of rights, from which a lot of stuff automatically derives (welfare etc). Realistically, on a wide range of issues (taxation, gender rights, abortion, religious topics), a lot of minority members actually skew hard-right.

Once (if) the "undocumented" issue is solved, I expect we will likely see a pretty big realignment in US politics. Which is why it's particularly braindead from Republicans to die on that hill, they don't realize there are massive gains for the taking.

Isn't this kind of circular logic? This is the Democratic response to the Republicans changing the size of the court in 2016.

From the article:

"The size of the Supreme Court, which has fluctuated since it was established in 1789, has remained at nine since 1869."

Between March of 2016 and April of 2017 the United States Supreme court had 8 Justices.

The size of court hasn’t changed in 150 years. What are you talking about?

As if there wasn’t enough politics in the judicial branch already, let’s make it even worse. This isn’t a slippery slope, it’s a free fall.

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