Should the Supreme Court add more seats?

[7Grace]

In 1937, President Franklin D Roosevelt proposed an idea that would now be known as “US Supreme court packing”. Court-packing is increasing the number of seats in court to change up the courtroom. In 2019 it was brought back up after Donald Trump appointed Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. In 2020, they suggested expanding the court to 15 justices. There are many pros and cons to why we should or shouldn't expand the courtroom.

There are many pros of court-packing. One of which is the court is somewhat imbalanced, and adding justices would ensure that it never reflects only one party’s political agenda. Also, the US Constitution does not say how many justices to have on the supreme court, so it would be easy to change it to more than nine.

But, while there are pros, there are also cons. A big con would be that each president would just be allowed to add justices for rank political reasons. Also, another reason why it is fine where it's at, is that historical precedent most strongly supports a nine-judge supreme court is what's best.

In my opinion, I do not think that the Supreme court should add any more seats. I think that because it has done its best at nine justices, why change it? Also, it would give the presidential party a big advantage in the court.

Do you think there should be nine justices or do you think we should have more?

Do you think it would be unfair to the opposite party of the president if it was changed?

https://www.procon.org/headlines/us-supreme-court-packing-top-2-pros-and-cons/ 

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justices.aspx#:~:text=Nine%20Justices%20make%20up%20the,The%20Honorable%20John%20G. 

[7Grace]

I agree that the supreme court is fine with the seats they have now.

[7Molly]

I agree that the supreme court should not add anymore seats. I think that the way they have it now is fine. I think that it would give advantages to the presidental party and that could cause a lot of problems.  I think if you add more seats it will ceate more harm than good. 

[7Grace]

I agree with you that it will create more bad than good things.

[5Aubrey]

I don't think that the supreme court should add more seats, I think that the nine justices are enough. I do think that it would give the presidential party a big advantage in court. Although changing could have some benefits, I think keeping it the same is most beneficial and leaving the nine justices would be good. 

[7Grace]

I agree that It would give the presidential part an advantage.

[3Kendall]

I agree, I do not think the Supreme Court should add any more seats. I think that there is no need for change as there have been no major problems with it. It is also proven that nine seats are a historical precedent most substantial. I think it could be unfair but there are also positive affects to changing.

[7Grace]

I agree that it has worked best with nine seats, so we shouldn't change it.

[5Laura]

I think that adding more seats to the supreme court is a good idea. It provides more people with different perspectives which can lead to a better decision. I wouldn't say that the seating right now is bad or totally wrong. In my view, it would just bring more benefits to the supreme court. 

[7Grace]

I see why you would think that adding more would be better, but I don't think it would help very much.