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In the wake of Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s elevation to the Supreme Court, the tide of support for Supreme Court expansion is rising within the Democratic party. With prominent Democratic elected officials like Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying that “nothing is off the table” after the election, and Vice President Biden announcing that he will establish a bipartisan commission of scholars to examine court reform, the idea of adding Justices has surged further into the mainstream than it has been in almost a century.
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