General Discussion

My proposal was to first expand to 15 appellate courts. The population of the country has grown enough that the current courts are overloaded. This would spread that workload around. That would require redrawing the circuit court territorial maps. Another benefit beyond dividing up the work load would be breaking up the highly biased 5th circuit and splitting up those conservative judges to dilute their influence. We can't take away their lifetime appointment, but we can split up their majority and tame them a bit. Of course, changing the circuit court maps would also require redrawing the district court territories within those circuits. Once we have 15 fairly drawn circuit maps, appoint a justice to oversea each of them. Currently, with 12 circuit courts and the Federal Appeals Court and 9 justices, some justice oversee 2 courts and some oversee 1.

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