Sherrilyn IfillI’m a civil rights lawyer. I don’t want to practice before a Court that’s compromised. I want a fair Court. Expansion would make this particular Court more ideologically balanced. Agree. But w/o a real, enforced ethics infrastructure, there will be 18 justices not fully disclosing financials, not compelled to recuse, praying in chambers w/their own faith leaders, going on trips w/groups filing briefs in cases before them, owning stock in indiv companies whose interests are before the Court.
SmokeyGeo@ifilljustice 1. there will never be an expanded court b/c you'd have to break the filibuster to do it. 2. but if you did, the next time power changes hands in DC, as it inevitably does, the court would get re-expanded. So nobody would be any better off but any shred of legitimacy would be gone