Court expansion - yea or nay?

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3. This misses the point

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Whether we are talking 9 unelected lawyers put in a position of dictating every feature of American life for as long as they live, or 12 or 15, it doesn't matter. It is all a terrible idea.

We should be talking about a structure that makes sense in 2026, not 1776. First, the court should not be dominated by career lawyers as if that is the only expertise that is valuable or needed. Today's society is so complicated, it is patently absurd to think that a few old lawyers truly understand the broad range of issues brought before the court.

We should be talking about a court of 50 Justices or more, divided into several panels based on expertise. For example, this could be one way to divide the expertise:
* Science, technology, environment, medicine, etc.
* Finance, commerce, worker rights, taxes, personal injury, etc.
* Constitutional rights, states rights, voting rights, etc.
* Foreign affairs, treaties, immigration, maritime law, etc.

And there would be a need for some structure to assign cases to the particular panels and to resolve overlaps between panels.