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What government institution determines the number of justices on The Supreme Court?
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∙ 7y ago
Congress
The US Constitution vests Congress with the authority to determine the structure of the federal courts, including the US Supreme Court. Congress set the number of justices on the Court at nine in the Judiciary Act of 1869.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoCongress has the sole authority to decide how many Justices sit on the Supreme Court. The US Constitution does not stipulate the size of the Supreme Court.
Currently Title 28 of the United States Code Section 1 provides for 1 Chief Justice and 8 Associate Justices. Congress has changed the number of justices several times, the last time being in the Judiciary Act of 1869.
The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the first Supreme Court with six members, a Chief Justice and 5 Associate Justices. Congress adjusted the size of the Court a number of times through the during the 19th-century.
- Judiciary Act of 1789: Court size 6
- Judiciary Act of 1801: Court size, 5
- Repeal Act of 1802: Court size, 6
- Seventh Circuit Act of 1807: Court size, 7
- Judiciary Act of 1837: Court size, 9
- Tenth Circuit Act of 1863: Court size, 10
- Judicial Circuit Act of 1866: Court size, 7
- Habeas Corpus Act of 1867: Court size, 8
- Judiciary Act of 1869: Court size, 9
After the election of President Ulysses S. Grant, Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1869, which set the Court's membership at nine. This number has remained the same ever since.
In 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted unsuccessfully to expand the membership of the court to gain support on the Court for his New Deal programs. He proposed adding one justice to the Supreme Court for every member over 70.5 years of age, with the potential of adding as many as six additional justices, for a total of 15. Congress refused to pass Roosevelt's legislation; however, the President had an opportunity to nominate eight justices* to vacancies that occurred during his terms of office, which created a court more receptive to his ideas.
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∙ 11y agoCongress has the power to increase or decrease the number of federal court judges, including the Supreme Court. The number has stayed at 9 for the sake of breaking ties, but it did change the number in the past.
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∙ 7y agoThe Congress determines the number of justices on The Supreme Court.
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the power to remove federal justices .... ;)
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there are about how mean justices on the Supreme Court.
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After all th opinions have been written and finalized, the justices announced their final decisions. The decisions are from the majority vote of the justices
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The President, Supreme Court justices, Senators, Representatives and others.
Who are the officeholders of the judicial branch?
For the federal government the officeholders would be the Supreme Court justices.
How many justices will have to agree before the Court will accept a case?
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