There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because

I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period.

It's just for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my

records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance.

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The number 9.

It's a number that represents tremendous power in American law.

Nine Supreme Court Justices inhabit the highest court in the land.

It's been that way since the days of Ulysses S. Grant but does it have to be?

The Constitution is actually silent on just how many justices there should be and certainly

since Grant there have been efforts to add more.

Now advocates on the left are eyeing the bench once again for a possible expansion.

They see the Supreme Court as it stands as partisan and out of touch.

Those opposed say expansion would prove catastrophic and cast into doubt the court's very legitimacy.

So in light of the emerging divide we ask this question should we expand the Supreme Court?

Hi everybody I'm John Donovan and this week we're taking a critical look at the state

of the Supreme Court.

A court that just handed down a series of monumental decisions.

They were controversial, they were consequential, a year when the court ruled on abortion and

gun rights and environmental protection and religion in public schools just to name a few

topics.

This is all renewed debate that we had earlier this year when President Biden first convened

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