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Tommy Generico

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17. There's no constitutional requirement to have nine justices

Reply to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2017, 02:43 PM

Jan 2017

That's just current law. Originally it was six.

A depressing thought occurs to me:

With the current eight the SCOTUS tends to lean right. And the oldest one (Ginsburg) is also one of the good ones.

So the reptiles can just sort of hang on and make political hay out of any filibuster without having to "go nuclear" or any such thing.

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