Opinion | Steve Vladeck: The case against court-packing. - NBCNewsTHINK
the chance to fill a seat that was expected to soon be vacant by reducing the court’s size from six justices to five. But once Jefferson was sworn in, his partisans in the new Congress quickly restored the seat — and Jefferson filled it.As the nation expanded westward, Congress kept pace, adding seats to the Supreme Court each time it created new circuit courts of appeals — for the Seventh Circuit in 1807, the Eighth and Ninth Circuits in 1837 and the Tenth Circuit in 1863.
Thus, when Congress next added a new circuit court in 1929, it left the size of the court unchanged. And when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, relying on dubious claims about the justices’ health and pace of work,to 15 Justices in 1937, it was the pushback from his own party in Congress that largely killed the proposal.
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