Law dean Erwin Chemerinsky and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Photo of Chemerinsky by Jim Block.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg didn t heed calls to resign when law dean Erwin Chemerinsky wrote a March 2014 op-ed making that plea.
Now, Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law and a frequent ABA Journal contributor, is asking Justice Stephen G. Breyer to retire and pointing to Ginsburg’s failure to do so as instructive.
Ginsburg died about two months before the presidential election last year, but the then-Republican-controlled U.S. Senate quickly confirmed former President Donald Trump’s conservative nominee, the now-Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wisely said when asked about the size of the high court, “Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a long time.” “I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt tried to pack the court,” she added. On this issue, she was absolutely right.
The latest efforts to expand the size of the Supreme Court of the United States should be viewed through political lenses. Last week, one of the major proponents of the new legislation Sen. Ed Markey stood outside the Supreme Court at a podium with a sign that read, “Expand the Court.”