That was a practical necessity due to Justices physically riding circuit & the absence of permanent circuit-level appellate judges. It is not a coincidence that the Court's size has remained constant since those things changed in 1869. Circuit riding was fully abolished in 1891.https://twitter.com/beyerstein/status/1316775799173853186 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
The Supreme Court has changed to meet the needs of different eras, and it's going to keep changing to remain relevant to our large, complex and growing polity.
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By which you mean your desired outcomes. Let's not pretend this is anything else.
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Replying to @baseballcrank @beyerstein
...you say as if conservative "originalism" isn't entirely about manipulating the historical record to make the Constitution agree with your desired outcomes.
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The Senate Judiciary committee literally risked their lives to confirm their preferred justice before the election. To ensure their desired outcomes.
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Why would the GOP majority run roughshod over norms and the rules of the senate itself, seeking to confirm the nominee after a ridiculous 4 days of hearings, if they don't expect to get outcome goodies out of it?
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A ridiculous 4 days? Until relatively recently, there were no hearings. Ginsburg's hearings, which Biden & Kagan ran, were 4 days. Breyer's were 4 days. Kagan's were 4 days. Sotomayor's were 4 days. Historic norms are on the R side:https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/08/history-is-on-the-side-of-republicans-filling-a-supreme-court-vacancy-in-2020/ …
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Replying to @baseballcrank @jeffwoodhead
There's a lot less consensus on this pick than there usuall is and the balance of the court is a stake. The time between nomination and hearings has also been ridiculously compressed to do it before the election leading to shoddy vetting.
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"Less consensus" is another way of saying that Democrats are unwilling to cross the aisle in the way that some Republicans were even on Kagan & Sotomayor.
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