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    Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Apr 22

    Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Mondaire Jones

    In fact, Lincoln & the GOP resisted calls to pack the Court in 1863. Stephen Field's seat left a 6-4 D-appointed majority (Field was a D himself), 1 seat was added bc there were 8 new states, no circuit Justice for CA & OR (Field was from CA).https://twitter.com/MondaireJones/status/1384991134498365440 …

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    The year was 1861. The Supreme Court was run by white supremacists who decided Dred Scott. President Lincoln warned that if Congress didn’t check the Court, “the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.” In 1863, Congress answered Lincoln’s call — expanding the Court.
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      2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Apr 22

        It was only at the end of the war that R-appointed Justices gained a majority. It is fairer to characterize what the Radical Republicans did in 1866-69 as Court-packing, but it remains inseparable from the immediate aftermath of the Civil War & the Johnson impeachment.pic.twitter.com/HObyHax7h6

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Apr 22

        The changes to the Court's size between 1807-69 were intimately tied to the circuit-riding system & the geographic expansion to the country. As soon as circuit-riding was ended, there was never another expansion of the Court bc there was never another practical case for it.

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      4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Apr 22

        Stephen Field actually stayed in CA a few months after his appointment to SCOTUS to preside over a treason trial of some Confederates who tried to hijack a ship in San Francisco & lead the state out of the Union.

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      2. Tyler Daniel‏ @TylerPolitical Apr 22
        Replying to @Rickersam3 @baseballcrank

        This is actually a really good idea. It should show who is arguing in good faith and who isn’t. The only problem I can foresee is complaints about having an even number of justices, but hey...they like to point to the 1700-1800s courts and those were at times even.

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      2. Warren Porter‏ @Warp_Reality Apr 22
        Replying to @baseballcrank

        "no circuit Justice for CA & OR" Do we have a circuit justice for each of our 11 circuits today?

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      3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank Apr 22
        Replying to @Warp_Reality

        We no longer need them because we now have permanent circuit-level appellate courts, which did not exist before 1891.

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      1. Chris Gifford‏ @cgifford300 Apr 22
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      1. Nah‏ @eastchoast Apr 22
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        It's a good thing that thread is all about expanding the court then! In fact, the word "pack" is nowhere in it. But nice to see you do agree that the number of seats on the Supreme Court has changed at various points in American history.

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