Jonathan Cohn: As an originalist, I believe we need 13 Supreme Court justices. One for each of the original 13 colonies. Or something.

As an originalist, I believe we need 13 Supreme Court justices. One for each of the original 13 colonies. Or something.

100% in all seriousness, one justice for every circuit, plus a new circuit for administrative law

like, yes, for expand the court reasons, but also for non-trivial not expand-the-court reasons too.

And for separate reasons, in every field where it's reasonable there should be a track for proposing agency regulations to be turned into law (packing them up as law proposals for congress, etc). I think that would make it harder to attack regulatory authority

Yes! And that new circuit will have exclusive jurisdiction over any case seeking a nationwide injunction with respect to any federal regulation (and maybe law too?). End the 5th Cir. forum shopping problem.

Exactly. Tho I'd probably go further and just let the US remove any case where the US itself or an official acting on its behalf in their official capacity is a defendant (but not any case where the US is prosecutor) be removed to the administrative circuit

or to the DC circuit, either works

Retake the House, hold the Senate, keep the White House, blow up the filibuster (please!), and done. Fingers crossed.

Honestly, think there should be the 9 SCOTUS justices and rotating justices coming in from what would be 14 circuits.

Well that gives you an even number (11 numbered circuits, fed circuit, DC circuit, plus admin circuit), so GOTTA throw in an at-large as a tie-breaker

make everyone really mad by throwing in FISCR

There would have been a clear rubric under which the Dems could've carved out a filibuster exception to pack the court: If a majority on the court is created by justices selected by presidents who did not get the popular vote, justices should be added by a popular president in equal number.

As an originalist, I believe that the real supreme court is the British Monarchy.

I'm originalist in that only the electoral votes of the Original 13 should count

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