“The only way to take the Supreme Court back in the near term is actually court expansion,” said Roosevelt. “[We] need to add justices to get us to the point that we would be at if we’d been appointing judges in a reasonable way, rather than this sort of random, strategic, retirement death way that we’ve been doing it.”
“Then we should have term limits. When people say ‘you can’t expand the Court, you’re going to set off this retaliatory cycle of tit-for-tat,’ they don’t seem to understand we’re already in that process.”
Kermit Roosevelt is the David Berger Professor for the Administration of Justice at Penn Carey Law School. He is also a member of CERL’s Affiliated Faculty. Read his bio here.
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