Author: Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

Adding more justices to the Supreme Court, as progressives want, isn’t the solution. Term limits represent the best hope.

The former federal judge and law school professor joined the court amid a pandemic, a hotly contested election and an avalanche of high-profile cases.

The nation’s high court has weighed in on policies affecting religious services, retail shopping, prison housing and the administration of elections.

The justices’ action clears the way for electors to convene Monday and confirm that President-elect Joe Biden will be nation’s 46th president.

It was a reversal from earlier actions taken by the high court in response to state restrictions on organized religion during the pandemic.

It won’t take long for Republicans to learn if Barrett is the reliable conservative upon whom they raced to bestow a seat on the Supreme Court.

The Constitution does not set the number of justices. Created in 1789 with six, the court has veered from five to 10, settling at nine 150 years ago.

If President Trump and Senate Republicans can get a 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, it will mark the biggest change there since 1991.

Ginsburg, 87, died late Friday on the eve of Rosh Hashanah following a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

If Ginsburg were forced to leave the court, President Donald Trump and Senate Republicans would try to expand the court’s conservative majority.