The measure would direct the president to appoint new judges in six increments over the span of 12 years.
You see, this got the unanimous consent because the effects were spread out. This wasn’t a Democratic plan to slam dozens of new Liberal judges onto the courts at once, it will happen gradually over the next 3 Presidential terms. Whichever party loses this election will get 2 more shots to stack the Federal judiciary.
Any plans to reform the Supreme Court should be done similarly.
Expanding the House is the only thing that can’t be done without an amendment. And if you look at the history of it before the 1910s when they fixed the size of the house at its current value, they increased it by little bits every few years, either after a census or after a new state was admitted
You see, this got the unanimous consent because the effects were spread out. This wasn’t a Democratic plan to slam dozens of new Liberal judges onto the courts at once, it will happen gradually over the next 3 Presidential terms. Whichever party loses this election will get 2 more shots to stack the Federal judiciary.
Any plans to reform the Supreme Court should be done similarly.
Does this also apply if you want to expand the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Electoral College?
Expanding the House is the only thing that can’t be done without an amendment. And if you look at the history of it before the 1910s when they fixed the size of the house at its current value, they increased it by little bits every few years, either after a census or after a new state was admitted
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives#:~:text=In 1911%2C Congress passed the,they first entered the union.