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Pack the court? In theory it would make sense to expand the SCOTUS to 11 or 13 seats because that is the number of federal judicial circuits and every justice is supposed to "represent" one (currently, several justices represent two or more federal circuits). I'd say expand it to 11 seats, the D.C. circuit and national circuit don't need representation on SCOTUS, but each region of the country should get their "own" Justice.

Expanding it now would be lunacy though, it was FDR's court-packing plan because it would benefit the President. 2 or more "new" SCOTUS seats are created and Obama would then name the justices. If we expanded the court from 9 to 13 seats this year, It would go from 5-4 Republican majority to a 8-5 RAT majority on the court on the court after Obama names four socialists to the newly created seats! That makes no sense.

Shrinking the size of the court would make more sense, I'm not sure how they'd decide which judges would be forced off the court if they cut it down to only 5 seats. I think the only time in history they shrunk the seats was during the civil war when it went from 10 to 9 seats, and I think they waited until a Justice died and then just abolished his position.