According to the National Constitution Center, “the Constitution allows for Congress to decide on how many Justices sit on the Supreme Court’s bench.” The Supreme Court has had as few as five and as many as 10 justices, settling on the current nine-member court in 1869.
No, the Constitution does not require 9 Supreme Court justices
The Constitution leaves the number of justices to the discretion of Congress, and there have not always been 9
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