Since 1869 there but nine justices on the bench. Before that it fluctuated from 852 as many as ten. This term, Court Packing stems from 1937 when fdr tried to change it to add more justices had favorable rulings for the new deal. But the senate rejected it overwhelmingly. But in 1983 then senator joe biden of the Judiciary Committee thought it was a bonehead idea. But now President Biden has ordered the 36 person six month study of expanding the court. As a group of Progressive Democrats as you mentioned introducing a bill changing the number from nine to 13 to shake up the current 63 conservative majority. Senator markey one of the bills cosponsors make clear why he believes the changes necessary. We are here because the United States Supreme Court is broken. The court is out of balance. Too Many Americans view it as a partisan Political Institution not our Impartial Judicial Branch of government. But republicans are outraged introducing their own legislation to maintain the bench and
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U. K. Health regulator approve the Oxford Astra Zeneca corona virus vaccine for emergency use the government has already preordered 100000000 doses paves the way for a huge expansion of the governments Inoculation Program u. K. Recorded its highest ever number of new cases on choose day its this new variant is now spreading across most of england and cases of doubling fast it is therefore necessary to apply tearful measures to a wide area including the remaining parts of the southeast as well as large parts of the midlands the northwest the northeast and the southwest even in the most areas not moving into tearful cases of rising to and its therefore necessary to upright here 3 measures more broadly too including in liverpool and North Yorkshire these changes will take a fact from the minute past midnight tomorrow morning. Hospitals across the United States are struggling with the high number of infections president elect joe biden has criticized the trumpet ministration for its handli
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