re: #119 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s pretty clear, to me anyway, that the reason we got into this problem over fighting over a single seat on the court is because we have failed to do the political action necessary to create laws and Amendments that are necessary.

We see that with the Equal Right’s Amendment, which should have passed.

We need to amend the Constitution in several areas.

If you say that is impossible, then what you’re saying is that our society can’t really come together and agree on a basic standard by which to govern ourselves.

Part of the problem is that we haven’t expanded the Supreme Court and lower courts enough to keep up with the growth of the nation. The Court was set at 9 seats when there were 37 states (1869), the follow year the census would count 38.9m Americans. The current estimated population (as of 2018) is 328.95m people.

If the Court were expanded, the value of each seat (and thus the stakes of each vacancy) would be lower. I don’t know what the right answer as to the size, but I think 9 is definitely too small in the modern world.