Notorious RBG Opposes Adding More SCOTUS Justices

NPR reports:

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview Tuesday that she does not favor proposals put forth by some Democratic presidential candidates who have advocated changing the number of Supreme Court justices if the Democrats win the presidency.

“Nine seems to be a good number. It’s been that way for a long time,” she said, adding, “I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court.”

Several Democratic candidates have indicated an openness, if they were to win the presidency, to adding to the number of justices on the Supreme Court to reduce the power of the current conservative majority.

Hit the link for much more from the wide-ranging interview, including comments on her health such as this one:

“There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced, with great glee, that I was going to be dead within six months,” she recalled. “That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now dead himself, and I,” she added with a smile, “am very much alive.”

Ginsburg is trending on Twitter due to this interview, leading many to presume she has died.