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23. Here's another fact to consider: Our constitution leaves the number of SCOTUS positions open.

Congress legislates the number of seats. At first they decided 6, then 5, then 6, then 7, then 9, then 10, then 7, then 9 again.

It's been 9 since the 1800s now, embedded in tradition, but an ultraconservative Koch-packed court could be blasted open at any time by a congress that decided we needed 11, or 15.

We've actually been here before. FDR had to deal with a supreme court which had been strongly conservative for 2 or 3 generations.
At one point over more than a year all the most important parts of his New Deal were struck down as unconstitutional. So he hatched a plan for him, the president, to appoint more justices, which caused a political firestorm. He eventually lost but not before SCOTUS self protectively started upholding some parts of the New Deal, which we have today, and eventually FDR got to appoint a replacement for someone who'd died, changing the balance.

Just something to keep in mind. Every action always causes reactions, every change causes new changes. And there is a fix if it gets too bad.