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“legislation called the Judiciary Act of 2021 was introduced last week that would immediately expand the Supreme Court to 13 Justices. If this is serious in its intent, it is foolish. There is no need to expand the Court in order to meet the demands of its workload. After the peaking in 2006, when President George W. Bush was in office, the number of cases on the docket has now plummeted. In 2019, the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a liberal icon appointed by President Clinton, told NPR that there is no need to expand the Court, saying: ``Nine seems to be a good number.'' With that established, this is a transparent ploy for power that would undermine trust in the fair application of law and delegitimize the highest Court in the land. If this is really a serious policy piece of legislation, we certainly wouldn't change the number of Supreme Court Justices immediately. If it weren't just politics, we certainly wouldn't change the Justices before another election. In fact, Senator Joe Biden, on this Senate floor, called FDR's attempt to pack the Court ``a power grab,'' and as a Presidential candidate this last year, he refused to endorse expanding the number of Justices.…”