Ruth Bader Ginsburg opposes 2020 Democrats' proposals to expand the Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said this week that she opposes proposals to expand the Supreme Court beyond its current nine members, a step that some Democratic presidential candidates have pushed as a remedy for what they see as the court's lurch to the right under President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate.NPR’s Nina Totenberg."If anything, [it] would make the court look partisan," she said of the court-packing plans advocated by some Democrats.
Ginsburg also said she was not concerned by calls for term limits for justices, citing the political difficulty of amending the Constitution, which enshrines lifetime appointments for federal judges. She said Constitutional protections for the federal judiciary are so strong that "the safeguards for judicial independence in this country, I think, are as great or greater than any place else in the world.
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