postman
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There is an election coming up and the public is against packing the courts which Piglosi knows quite well. If they keep the House and Biden does get in, they won't care as much because the next election will be 2 years away. If they tried to pack the courts at this stage of the game, without a doubt they will lose leadership of the House in a big way.
Actually it would not be packing the courts, but restoring the court to it's proper number of justices.
There are 13 appellate courts that sit below the U.S. Supreme Court, and they are called the U.S. Courts of Appeals. The 94 federal judicial districts are organized into 12 regional circuits, each of which has a court of appeals.
Right now Justice Roberts and others are assigned multiple appellate courts to oversee. Previously each justice only oversaw one circuit.
So expanding the court to 13 justices would be fair and proper.