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In Ruth’s Ginsburg version of the brief, what did she add?

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Ginsburg, who struggled to criticize candidate Donald Trump in 2016, this time did not criticize any particular Democratic contender, but his proposals to offset President Trump's two conservative court appointments.

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"Nine seems to be a good number. It's been that way for a long time," he said, adding: "I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to fill the field."

Several Democratic candidates have indicated an opening, if they were to win the presidency, to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court to reduce the power of the current conservative majority. Some would also like to enact term limits for Supreme Court justices.

The proposed term limits do not worry Ginsburg because he sees it as unrealistic, since the Constitution specifies terms of life for federal judges and because, as she says, "Our Constitution is powerfully difficult to amend."

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