{"id":160016,"date":"2026-08-10T14:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/10\/nine-was-never-sacred\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T22:39:07","slug":"nine-was-never-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/10\/nine-was-never-sacred\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Was Never Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Constitution doesn\u2019t say how many justices sit on the Supreme Court; Congress sets the number, and it hasn\u2019t always been nine. When was the last time lawmakers shrank the number of seats on the Court?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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. <\/strong><\/p>\n

See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

The Constitution doesn\u2019t say how many justices sit on the Supreme Court; Congress sets the number, and it hasn\u2019t always been nine. When was the last time lawmakers shrank the number of seats on the Court?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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. <\/strong><\/p>\n

See the answer on the next page.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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