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Jasmine Crockett: “We have expanded the court seven times in this country.”

Featuring: Jasmine Crockett, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 30

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Published | Video Starts at 47:59

In addition to that, like, some people try to act like it's such a radical idea. Let me tell you, it's not radical to expand the court. We have expanded the court seven times in this country. We currently have 13 circuit courts, which are our appellate courts. And so, at a very minimum, we need that number of justices to match up with the number of appellate courts. (47:59–48:02)

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Asserts that the U.S. Supreme Court has been expanded seven times historically.

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