On Expanding the United States Supreme Court

With the swearing in of Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States and the Democrats having a bare majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate a few people are enthusiastic and hopeful as the executive and legislative branch of the United States government, for the first time since 2015, is “controlled” by the Democrats. To add a spanner to the works (so to speak) it can be stated that perhaps in a sense the most powerful institution among the three branches of government the United States Supreme Court is and would continue to be in Republican “hands.”

A news item stated that Judge Merrick Garland, which former president Barack Obama appointed to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in March 2016 eight months before the 2016 US presidential election, is nominated by President Biden as attorney-general in the new administration.