Justice Breyer rejects Democratic plan to ‘pack’ Supreme Court: Nine seats ‘is fine’

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Justice Stephen Breyer rebuffed a proposal to add more seats to the Supreme Court, saying instead that nine members “seems to work.”

“I think nine is fine,” Breyer said during an event Monday when he was asked about the “Pack the Court” proposal favored by many leading Democrats. “I’m not speaking about anybody’s proposal, but I’ve discovered that nine seems to work.”

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