In arguments Thursday, the justices will, for the first time, wrestle with a constitutional provision that was adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “engaged in insurrection” from reclaiming power.
The case is the court’s most direct involvement in a presidential election since Bush v. Gore, a decision delivered a quarter-century ago that effectively delivered the 2000 election to Republican George W. Bush. It comes to a court that has been buffeted by criticism over ethics, which led the justices to adopt their first code of conduct in November, and at a time when public approval of the court is diminished, at near-record lows in surveys.
The dispute stems from the push by Republican and independent voters in Colorado to kick Trump off the state’s Republican primary ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Would not worry, they will make the wrong decision anyway.
Just going to have to accept that the Roberts Court is going to act like this until it is fixed. Don’t assume good faith when you see red flags.
The only way to fix it right now is to increase members, get a majority, then set rolling term limits.
Or just appoint one new justice every two years, and have no fixed number of justices.
Lol that’s a big court.
The average Supreme Court justice serves 16 years. If you add one every two years, you’d typically have about eight justices. (In recent decades the average tenure has stretched to 28 years; if that trend held you’d have about 14 justices.)
That doesn’t seem like the modern term length.
Fairly clear in the chart here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_justices_of_the_Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States?wprov=sfla1
Average seems closer to 30.
From your link:
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