Justia Verdict: Americans Should Not Be Afraid to Reform the Supreme Court
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on August 15, 2024.
Even the current size of the Court has not escaped the change agenda. The Constitution, Keith Thirion of the Alliance for Justice observes, “does not specify the size of the Court, and Congress originally set it at six members. It has been changed many times since then to five (1801), back to six (1802), seven (1807), nine (1837), 10 (1863), seven again (1867), and then back to nine (1869).”