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Hi, I'm Tom Ginsburg.

I'm a professor at the University of Chicago Law School and I wrote a piece called Don't Pack the Court,

which reflects my views about the various discussions these days about what to do about the

U.S. Supreme Court.

It's been a lot of discussion in last year's election cycle about how to quote unquote

fix the court. Various proposals including cycling Court of Appeals judges onto the court, introducing some kind of term limits,

changing the majorities required, and ultimately the proposal I was responding to brought forward

by Congressional Democrats to

actually expand the number of seats on the court. To summarize the piece, I

don't think expanding the number of seats on the court is a good idea. Court

packing of course has a bad history in the United States. It's something that Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried in the 1930s and his own party rejected. It's seen as somehow unfair in a way that even the similar exercises to affect the

composition of the court under Mitch McConnell and the Republicans didn't reach

the same degree as court packing.

And I sort of agree with that.

I think you can categorize all these various reforms

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