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Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS... by tptacek on Saturday July 06, 2013 @01:04AM (#5998017)
I defer to you on this stuff, but my current sense is that Congress packing the Supreme Court is approximately as likely as Congress impeaching a Supreme Court justice.
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Re:Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NS... by DannyBee on Sunday July 07, 2013 @12:30AM (#6001047)
FDR tried it directly.

Other than that, the number has fluctuated from five to ten, and there admittedly hasn't been overt court packing, though congress did drop the number from 10 to 7 in 1866 to avoid andrew johnson from naming any supreme court justices since he was about to be impeached.

Past that, the main reason they haven't is due to the approval rating of the supreme court being so high. Nowadays, there are recent rumblings about packing again, since the supreme court's approval rating has dropped.

Given the politics of today's congress, I wouldn't be shocked to see it happen.

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