It would be a great day for Joe Biden to announce that he favors court expansion because restoring and expanding on Roe -- plus saving the country from the MAGA majority's other attacks on the democracy and the planet -- is that important. Can't happen unless we run on it.
@lolgop I favor returning to what the founding fathers believed. A court of five associate justices with a chief justice. Only, I would change it to make the chief justice like the President of the Senate and only vote if there is a tie.
Then remove those with least seniority.
It’s a better idea to increase justices to 13, equal to the number of circuit courts. #SCOTUS could use the extra help to hear and decide cases. And let’s get rid of lifetime appointments where we often have to wait for a justice to die before bringing fresh blood to #scotus. I don’t know why we put up with that unnecessary randomness.
If you think things were complicated with only nine judges to deliberate between, just wait for thirteen.
It would make hearing and deciding cases just that much more complicated as it would involve that much more running between offices to trade drafts and vie for coalitions.
You know the phrase too many cooks? It applies here.
@volkris @BohemianPeasant @lolgop There's actually an equation for it. Effectiveness of a committee (team) varies as 1/N^2. The current nine judge panel is 0.012 times whatever the base is (1?). A 13 judge panel is 0.006 or about 1/2 a nine judge. A five judge panel is 0.11 or about nine times that of a nine judge panel.
@volkris @BohemianPeasant @lolgop There are other variables like diversity of the set, which can make it either better or worse depending on a lot of things.
Technical diversity makes a 29 person multi-disciplinary engineering team more effective than a 8 member single discipline team. The latter is more prone to groupthink, for one thing.
So, the five member panel would need to avoid WASPs as they tend to groupthink more than any other group of Americans.
@volkris @BohemianPeasant @lolgop Yup. I see that a lot...like in the recent one about A14.3