Proposal to Expand Size of Supreme Court Draws Fire

(CNSNews.com) - The number of justices on the Supreme Court should be increased because the "current five-man [conservative] majority persists in thumbing its nose at popular values," a legal expert has proposed, sparking debate and criticism.

"When a majority of Supreme Court justices adopt a manifestly ideological agenda, it plunges the court into the vortex of American politics," Jean Edward Smith, a biographer and political science professor at Marshall University, wrote in the New York Times Thursday.