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It takes two parties to be bipartisan
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Leonard Pitts: It takes two parties to be bipartisan
There is nothing sacred about the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
In this May 23, 2019 file photo, the U.S. Supreme Court building at dusk, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
By Leonard Pitts | The Miami Herald
| April 14, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
There is nothing sacred about nine.
The number was not carried down from a mountain on stone tablets, nor did it appear in a burning bush. In fact, before the Supreme Court contained nine justices, it contained six, the number fixed when the tribunal was established in 1789. Then, in an attempt to hobble his successor, President John Adams reduced it to five.
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Immigrants who have lived abroad or grown up with stories of political chaos know that the most violent days always start out in an eerie quiet, as January 6, 2021, did in Washington, DC. By 1:10 pm that day, after then-President Donald Trump issued his call for thousands of supporters to march on the Capitol, anyone who was paying attention knew that something dangerous was about to take place.
Within a matter of minutes, at the other end of the National Mall, a Capitol police officer banged on the door of Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA). “You need to evacuate immediately,” Lieu recalls the officer saying before urging him to remove the lapel pin that identified him as a member of Congress and directing him down five flights of stairs to a secure location.