Bernie Sanders’s radical plan to fix the Supreme Court
Posted on AllSides February 11th, 2020
From The Left
ANALYSIS
One possible version: What if the Court had 188 justices?
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) came out against court-packing as a way to end Republican dominance of the Supreme Court on Saturday. But he then suggested an alternative that is no less radical — neutralizing the Court’s Republican majority by demoting some of its members.
Some of Sanders’s rivals have embraced or, at least, expressed openness toward court-packing, adding additional seats to the Supreme Court to dilute its Republican members’ votes. Sanders, at a forum focused on how Democratic presidential candidates...
