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The current president could name six Supreme Court Justices today, if the Democrats were better at this.
Not quite.
If you mean that all six conservatives could be impeached today, there really is only damning evidence against two of them right now and impeachment has to start in the Republican-controlled House and get a 2/3 vote in the Senate, none of which have a chance of happening.
If you mean that Democrats could expand the Court to 15 today, that also has to go through the Republican House first, as well as centrist Democrats in both houses who might view that as too extreme. I am an advocate for expanding the Court, but I would stop at 13.
I also think 13 is a good number because that would be 1 Supreme Court justice for each circuit court
But getting to that will be hard and not to mention unless a cap is put in place (I prefer tying it to the number of circuit courts) then the next person who scoots in could expand it further with less push back due to it having been done just recently
The last thing we need is every president who scoots into office appointing more and more justices until it gets out of hand
I think an "arms race" that forever expands the court -- and thus dilutes the individual relevance of a single Justice -- is a good thing.
A single Justice dying or retiring should not be the sort of thing to reshape the entire country.
"A good thing" is too strong a statement, but I could agree with "not worse than the status quo."