SteveRogers
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« on: September 06, 2019, 10:12:47 AM » |
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Sanders’s plan (rotating out SCOTUS justices to the lower courts) and Buttigieg’s plan (allowing the appointed justices to vote to select additional justices) would almost certainly require constitutional amendments.
I do wonder if they are onto something though. Could congress authorize SCOTUS to assign lower court judges to sit on the Court as visiting justices by designation (similar to how district judges routinely sit on circuit court panels by designation in order to ease the appellate caseload)? I’m envisioning something where we keep our 9 permanent Justices, but expand the Court size to 15 by pulling in a group of 6 additional judges from the circuit courts on a rotating basis.
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