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argonautweakend posted...

I feel like increasing the court by two would make some sense, since in 2016 republicans refused to give Merrick Garland a hearing, using the reasoning of "no new justices in an election year" only to intentionally not have that reasoning follow suit when the same scenario happened 4 years later(which is to say, if that's the reasoning you wanna use, Ginsburg dying in September is a hell of a lot closer to election day than Scalia in February). All that and you still keep an odd number of justices.

The odd number is really the only reason for two. We're owed one, but the court can't be left even.