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To: P-Marlowe
...Supreme Court cannot overturn any state or federal statute on constitutional grounds unless 7 of the 9 justices concur.

Who has the power to say how many 'justices' sit on the Supreme Court?

78 posted on 06/28/2015 7:33:06 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: houeto

Congress. See FDR’s “Court packing” plan. It worked wonders, SCOTUS adopted a creative view of the constitution -on the spot-, even though the plan was never implemented.


80 posted on 06/28/2015 7:40:20 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: houeto
Who has the power to say how many 'justices' sit on the Supreme Court?

Congress.

83 posted on 06/28/2015 9:09:14 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!)
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