Why are people acting as if 9 justices is some sort of divinely mandated number in coming up with term length proposals? It's not even Constitutionally mandated.
I know, but 9 is fine by me. An odd number of justices is preferable for obvious reasons, and 9 is neither too many nor too few.
I'd prefer increasing the size to at least 12, so that there is 1 Supreme Court Judge per Circuit.
(I'd also prefer realigning the circuits and increasing their number to 13, with a minimal realignment of putting California into a new 12th Circuit and renaming the D.C. Circuit as the Territorial Circuit and transferring Puerto Rico there from the 1st, the Virgin Islands from the 3rd, Guam and the NMI from the 9th, and America Samoa which currently has no circuit. I'd also transferring the D.C. Circuit's jurisdiction in cases that don't really involve D..C., but a government agency based there to the Federal Circuit .)
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