Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
The Constitution doesn’t say how many justices sit on the Supreme Court; Congress sets the number, and it hasn’t always been nine. When was the last time lawmakers shrank the number of seats on the Court?
Hint: In this year, Congress set SCOTUS at seven members, largely seen as a political move to deny a sitting president the chance to appoint anyone at all. Just three years later (and with a new president in charge), they increased the size of the Court to nine.
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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
The Constitution doesn’t say how many justices sit on the Supreme Court; Congress sets the number, and it hasn’t always been nine. When was the last time lawmakers shrank the number of seats on the Court?
Hint: In this year, Congress set SCOTUS at seven members, largely seen as a political move to deny a sitting president the chance to appoint anyone at all. Just three years later (and with a new president in charge), they increased the size of the Court to nine.
See the answer on the next page.
