The phrase "additional justice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are referring to extra measures or considerations taken to ensure fairness or equity in a situation.
Example: "The committee proposed additional justice measures to address the disparities faced by marginalized communities."
Alternatives: "further justice" or "supplementary justice".
Why not give the president upon election the power to appoint an additional justice, with Senate consent?
But instead of simply requesting that Congress add an additional justice or two, Roosevelt's convoluted scheme fooled no one and ultimately sank under its own weight.
The suggestion that the president upon election have the power to appoint an additional justice seems almost laughable given the fractious debate that currently accompanies nominations requiring Senate consent.
As a result, he proposed a "reform" of the courts that would, among other things, have added an additional justice to the Supreme Court for every current justice over the age of 70.
A plan by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to allow him to appoint an additional justice for each member of the court age 70 years or older who refused to retire was rejected in the 1930s.
F.D.R. defeated the Republican, Alf Landon, yet again breaking a record in the electoral college: 523 to 8. In February, 1937, Roosevelt floated his plan: claiming that the Justices were doddering, and unable to keep up with the business at hand, he would name an additional Justice for every sitting Justice over the age of seventy.
In response, Roosevelt made the misstep of trying to "pack" the Supreme Court with additional justices.
Sanders did not support adding additional justices to the Supreme Court, an idea known as "court packing".
Roosevelt decided to introduce a bill to allow him to appoint up to six additional justices on the court.
Others, however, have said a challenge should wait, for the arrival of additional justices who might be open to overturning Roe and for a shift in public opinion.
Given the age of the current Supreme Court — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 85 and Stephen G. Breyer will turn 80 this summer — it's entirely possible that Trump could name additional justices before his presidency ends.
