Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices.
Justice are judges. All current and former justices on the US Supreme Court began their careers as lawyers.
Originally the top court in England had 9 justices. When the United States created its own Supreme Court, it used that number. England still is supposed to have 9 instead of 8. It only has 8 at present because it can not figure out how to appoint a chief Justice.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan are the only unmarried justices on the current Court (as of September 23, 2010). Justice David Souter, whom Sotomayor succeeded on the bench in 2009, was also unmarried.
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Required for what? There are no constitutional mandates governing the number of justices seated on the Supreme Court; such details were left to Congress. Congress determined that a Judiciary Act should never allow fewer than six justices; the current legislation requires nine. A quorum of the current Supreme Court requires at least six justices to hear and decide a case.
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Congress set the current number of Supreme Court justices at nine (one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices) in the Judiciary Act of 1869, and has the authority to pass legislation making future changes.
Nine Justices Nine Justices make up the current Supreme Court: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices. There have been 103 Associate Justices in the Court's history.
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