'Expanding the court to 13 justices or even more wouldn’t guarantee a liberal bench in perpetuity, of course. But it might prevent any single president from drastically remaking the court.' Columnist hiltzikm explains:
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Such ex post facto reasoning is also on display from Sen. Lindsey Graham , who couldn’t have been more clear in 2016 when he said, “. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination.”
* Harry Reid changed the rules to allow a simple majority vote for Circuit Court nominees dealing out the minority.
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