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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4832796" data-attributes="member: 18222">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/dems-planning-to-unveil-bill-to-add-justices-to-scotus-report/?utm_source=maropost&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=news_alert&amp;utm_content=20210414&amp;mpweb=755-9348880-720572652[/URL]Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a co-sponsor of the bill, told the Journal that adding justices “will shore up the public’s confidence in the court and its legitimacy in the public’s eyes.”Also backing the measure are House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (NY-10th District) Subcommittee Chair Hank Johnson (GA-4th District), and freshman New York Rep. Mondaire Jones. Nadler’s office wouldn’t confirm or deny the proposal to The Post.Congress altered the number of justices on the court several times over the 19th Century from a low of five to a high of 10. The number was fixed at nine shortly after the Civil War.In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt unsuccessfully sought to expand the court after conservative justices ruled against some of his New Deal policies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4832796, member: 18222"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2021/04/14/dems-planning-to-unveil-bill-to-add-justices-to-scotus-report/?utm_source=maropost&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news_alert&utm_content=20210414&mpweb=755-9348880-720572652[/URL] Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a co-sponsor of the bill, told the Journal that adding justices “will shore up the public’s confidence in the court and its legitimacy in the public’s eyes.” Also backing the measure are House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler (NY-10th District) Subcommittee Chair Hank Johnson (GA-4th District), and freshman New York Rep. Mondaire Jones. Nadler’s office wouldn’t confirm or deny the proposal to The Post. Congress altered the number of justices on the court several times over the 19th Century from a low of five to a high of 10. [B]The number was fixed at nine shortly after the Civil War.[/B] In the 1930s, President Franklin D. Roosevelt unsuccessfully sought to expand the court after conservative justices ruled against some of his New Deal policies. [/QUOTE]

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