Could the House quadruple in size?

A federal lawsuit was filed today seeking to nearly double the number of seats in the House of Representatives, the NY Times reports.

The plaintiffs argue that the current system of apportionment gives unequal representation to different congressional districts.

The problem arises because each state gets at least one representative, regardless of size. So Wyoming, whose population is about 523,000, gets the same power in Congress as Nevada's 3rd district, which has over 900,000 constituents.

How to remedy this? Make Congress bigger, the plaintiffs say. A lot bigger:

That 400,000-person disparity between top and bottom has generated a federal court challenge that is set to be filed Thursday in Mississippi, charging that the system effectively disenfranchises people in certain states. The lawsuit asks the courts to order the House to fix the problem by increasing its size from 435 seats to at least 932, or perhaps as many as 1,761. That way, the plaintiffs argue, every state can have districts that are close to parity.