A Supreme Court Suggestion

Traditionally USA has had nine justices on its Supreme Court. But as the population has risen that means the representation per citizen has vastly decreased. Why does it matter? Well, honestly it doesn't. Raising the number of justices to fifteen (which is what I'm about to propose) wouldn't make that much difference in terms of representation especially over the course of time that it would take to do it. The reason to increase the number of justices is to give a wider representation to our technological advances and our cultural evolution. Last season there were a coupla cases that showed how potentially out of touch the current justices are to the creeping digitization of our world. The need to expand the court is for technology and the changes that will bring in how the citizenry relates to each other and the state. 

How to expand the court? Here ya go: Congress could announce right now that every ten years for the next three decades, two more justices will be added. The growth should be staggered so that no single president gets more than two extra nominations. The time frame should be pushed far enough into the future that no one can predict who will be president at the time. 

So in 2025, the sitting president would get two extra Supreme Court nominations in addition to however many replacement nominations will be needed; then again in 2035 and 2045 which would bring the total number of justices to fifteen. Fifteen seems a reasonable number, though 30 years from now we may decide we could use more. The elections of 2024, 2032 and 2044 would have a bit of extra bite to them but everyone would know ahead of time what was at stake.