Bernie Sanders' confusing new SCOTUS plan: Rotating judges?

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Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Thursday night during the Democratic debate that Roe v. Wade would be his litmus test for new Supreme Court justices, were he to be president. But Sanders also slipped in another proposal that has at least former U.S. attorney extremely confused.

Sanders said that in order to reform America's top court, Congress could "rotate justices to other [U.S.] courts" as a means of reshuffling the ideological make-up of the bench. That idea got a whole lot of question marks from former prosecutor Preet Bharara:

Hey, at least it's not court packing?

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Jeva Lange
Jeva Lange

Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.