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Ben Wikler: “The number of Supreme Court Justices expanded and contracted…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 52:47

And that means that it's harder to draw lines that exclude people and more people have representation. One of the ideas I talk about, The number of Supreme Court Justices expanded and contracted over and over. It kind of got frozen after the FDR's battle with the Supreme Court that led to the approval of the New Deal, effectively, but that's been frozen for a while. (52:47–52:52)

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Asserts that the number of Supreme Court Justices has historically changed multiple times.

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