POLITSC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Stephen Breyer, En Banc, Antonin Scalia
6 Feb 2018
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This means they choose the cases they want to hear. They do about 80-100 each year, sometimes even less than that. Congress and the size of the supreme court. The judicial power of the united states, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish. Judiciary act of 1789 set the size of the supreme court at six. Congress increased the size to seven in 1807 and then to nine in 1837. In the judiciary act of 1869, congress established that the court would consist of the. Ted cruz didn"t want obama to nominate someone after scalia died or something. There is certainly long historical precedent for a supreme court with fewer justices. I would note, just recently, that justice breyer observed that the vacancy is not impacting the ability of the court to do its job.
