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MYSTAL: “Well, I think part of the problem the Democrats have faced here is that they’re just not thinking big enough. One of the arguments that you hear against court expansion is where does it end? If they put two, then we’ll put three, and they’ll put five — who cares? Bring it. I say add ten justices to the Supreme Court right now, that makes it a 19-member body. If the Republicans want to come out and add ten justices after that, that’s 29 justices. That’s about the size of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Can you give me a really good argument for why the Supreme Court should be so significantly smaller than our circuit courts? I can’t. So then the Democrats come on and add ten more and we get to 100 justices, I don’t care. I can live in that world. Do you know why? Because the more justices on the Supreme Court there are, the less important any one random death is to our polity.”