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hen Democratic senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts and House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York introduced their bill in April to increase the number of Supreme Court justices from nine to 13, some advocates of Court-packing made it clear that the bill was meant to put political pressure on sitting Supreme Court justices.
“The Court needs to know that the people are watching,” Democratic congressman Hank Johnson of Georgia, a co-sponsor of the Court-packing bill, said at a press conference announcing the…
