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The United States is facing an urgent, existential problem. Thankfully, the solution is obvious, incredibly easy to implement, and incidentally, would be very helpful to Democrats. The hard part, perhaps unsurprisingly, will be convincing enough Democrats in Washington to spring for it. President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress must expand the... Supreme Court from its current nine seats to 13 seats. They must also expand the federal judiciary. These changes can be enacted with simple majority votes from both houses of Congress, and if Democrats dont do it within the next two years, they may well never have the power to do so or anything else of consequence ever again. Thats not hyperbole: After Mitch McConnell spent four years under Trump stuffing the courts with unqualified right-wing ideologues, Republican legislatures across the country are moving toward enacting historic voter suppression laws and redistricting schemes that will eviscerate the United States already flawed democracy and turn it into a functional one-party state. Only an expanded court system can stop them. There is plenty of precedent for changing the size of the federal judiciary, including the size of the top court itself. Doing it this time wouldnt be an act of partisanship, but a necessary measure to rebalance a hijacked judiciary and save the republic. Republicans have stolen two Supreme Court seats, and if Democrats dont respond in any way to check this behavior, its only going to get worse, says Christopher Kang , former Deputy Counsel to President Obama and the co-founder of Demand Justice . There needs to be some consequences, or else Republicans, in their quest for power above all else, will continue to politicize our courts. With help from existing gerrymanders, Republicans in November held on to all of their legislative majorities, including in Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, states that went blue in the top-line contests. Instead of recognizing and adjusting to ongoing political and demographic shifts that ...Read More