Pete Buttigieg's ideas on restructuring the Supreme Court.

[mysteryowl]

"We definitely need to do structural reform on the Supreme Court. Adding justices can be part of the solution but not in and of itself, it’s not enough. It’s neither necessary nor sufficient. What we’ve got to do is depoliticize it and one solution that I’ve been discussing in recent weeks is structuring it with 15 members but five of whom can only be seated by a unanimous consensus of the other 10."

He also suggests that these 10 justices who get to select the others should be selected by presidents from opposite parties. As a practical matter, this means five Democratic appointees and five Republican appointees.

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I think he is onto something that needs to be considered.

[tritsofme]

1. While it is an interesting idea, it comes with major constitutional concerns.

It’s not clear this could be accomplished without a constitutional amendment.