greenmountaineer wrote:
I was looking at my copy of that silly old document called The Constitution of the United States. You know, that thing that none of the politicians in Washington pay much attention to anymore, and it didn't say how many judges there are supposed to be on the Supreme Court. I've run across some information, that back in the 19th century, there were fifteen of 'em at one time. So don't worry about having eight for a while.
There is nothing about the number of Justices on that Bench but the Congress was told to create all the courts and 9 was their number and always has been. However, that 15 you talk about was suggested by FDR because he thought if he could appoint 6 new judges he could get people that liked what he did. It was such a good thing that the Congress just didn't have enough progressives to accept that crap.