Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is calling for “fundamental” changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including increasing the number of justices.
In a post on social media, the lawmaker declared, “We need to radically reform our broken Supreme Court,'' including “expanding the number of justices,'' “binding and enforceable ethics rules,'' and “term limits.'' “Settings” was requested.
“SCOTUS reform will be on the ballot in November,” the congressman asserted.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) speaks during a press conference commemorating the 6th anniversary of the Trump administration's Executive Order 13769 in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 26, 2023. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
There are currently nine seats on the high court, but some members have advocated for an increase in the number of seats, a proposal critics have called court-packing.
Omar, who took office in 2019 and is currently seeking re-election, has been an outspoken advocate of this policy.
In 2020, after the Senate confirmed Amy Coney Barrett to the bench, she tweeted, “Please expand the courtroom.” supreme court.
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Omar (left) and Representative Ayanna Pressley (Massachusetts) hold signs as President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives on March 7, 2024. ). Washington DC (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Omar and dozens of other Democrats are backing a bill that would add four seats to the Supreme Court, expanding it from nine to 13 seats, but the Judiciary Act of 2023 has not yet been voted on. .
Of the nine justices currently serving on the Supreme Court, three were appointed by then-President Donald Trump while he was in the White House: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. A person.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated by President Joe Biden in 2022 and confirmed by the Senate the same year, is the latest justice to be sworn in to the Supreme Court.
Representatives Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush confuse Memorial Day and Veterans Day in since-deleted post of X
Omar will arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, June 15, 2023, for the final vote of the week. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
Unlike presidents and members of Congress, Supreme Court justices have no term limits. The Constitution provides that “Judges of both the Supreme Court and the lower courts shall hold office during periods of good conduct.''
