The size of the US Supreme Court is set by who?
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The United States Constitution does not specify the size of the Supreme Court; instead, Congress has the power to fix the number of Justices. Originally, the total number of Justices was set at six by the Judiciary Act of 1789. As the country grew geographically, the number of Justices steadily increased to correspond with the growing number of judicial circuits. The court was expanded to seven members in 1807, nine in 1837 and ten in 1863. In 1866, however, Congress wished to deny President Andrew Johnson any Supreme Court appointments, and therefore passed the Judicial Circuits Act, which provided that the next three Justices to retire would not be replaced; thus, the size of the Court would eventually reach seven by attrition. Consequently, one seat was removed in 1866 and a second in 1867. The Circuit Judges Act of 1869 again set the number of judges at nine (the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices), where it has remained ever since.\n\nPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to expand the Court in his proposed Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937. His plan would have allowed the President to appoint one new, additional justice for every justice who reached the age of seventy but did not retire from the bench, until the Court reached a maximum size of fifteen justices. Ostensibly, this was to ease the burdens of the docket on the elderly judges, but it was widely believed that the President's actual purpose was to add Justices who would favor his New Deal policies, which had been regularly ruled unconstitutional by the Court. This plan, referred to often as the Court Packing Plan, failed in Congress. The Court, however, moved from its opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal programs, rendering the President's effort moot (see the switch in time that saved nine). In any case, Roosevelt's long tenure in the White House allowed him to appoint eight Justices to the Supreme Court and promote one Associate Justice to Chief Justice; upon his death in 1945, all but one of the Court's members were his appointees.
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Ummmm....the US Constitution?
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John Roberts is the Chief Justice, Samuel Alito is the new judge. Both appointed by G.W. Bush.
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The facts are set forth within the body of the Supreme Court's opinion here:\nhttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=403&invol=528
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A standard single tennis court is 60 feet wide by 120 feet long. (60 x 120) The length and width of the court can be slightly larger or smaller depending on the application. The International Tennis Federation recommend a minimum court size of 56" x 114".
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Yes, it is important, The U.S. Supreme Justices when they retire or leave or die are apponted by the President, how do you think John Roberts and Samuel Alito became Supreme Court Justices?\nYes , the president does have power in this area when it involves the appointment of Supreme court justices
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Looking at the makeup of the Supreme Court, I think it was to ensure that the Chief Justice would be a Republican appointee for a long time.  All of the other are either Democratic appointees (Breyer, Ginsburg), rather liberal (Souter, Kennedy, Stevens) or would have difficulty getting approved by the Senate as Chief (Thomas).  That leaves Scalia, but he was almost 70 at the time, and likely could not be counted on to stay on the court for more than 5-10 years.  Roberts, on the other hand, was a spry 50 years old and thus will likely lead the court for at least 20 years.
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what state? is it fed. district court,us supreme court? need more info and i can get it for you.
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1.William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice\n2.Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice\n3.Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice\n4.John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice\n5.Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice\n6.Antonin Scalia, Associate Justice\n7.Anthony M. Kennedy, Associate Justice\n8.David Hackett Souter, Associate Justice\n9.Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice
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The constitution created the Supreme Court and authorized Congress to create lower courts.
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Article 3: establishes the last of the three branches of government, the Judiciary. Section 1 establishes the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States. It also sets the terms of judges, of both the Supreme Court and lower courts: that they serve as long as they are on "good behavior," which usually means for life (no Justice and only a few judges have ever been impeached). It also requires that judges shall be paid.\n\nSection 2 sets the kinds of cases that may be heard by the federal judiciary, which cases the Supreme Court may hear first (called original jurisdiction), and that all other cases heard by the Supreme Court are by appeal. It also guarantees trial by jury in criminal court.\n\nSection 3 defines, without any question, what the crime of treason is.
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There are nine justices in total, the Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices.  The court does not need back-up because it can issue decisions without input from all of the justices if necessary.
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The Supreme Court, I believe. If not, it could be a federal court of some sort.
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-John Roberts \nJohn Paul Stevens \nAntonin Scalia \nAnthony Kennedy\nDavid Souter \nClarence Thomas \nRuth Bader Ginsburg \nStephen Breyer\nSamuel Alito
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1. lifetime\n2. supreme court \n\n:> peace\n.
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The new Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court is John Roberts.
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VII. John Marshall and Judicial Nationalism \n    A. Marshall most important chief justice in U.S. history (1801-1835) \n        1. Significantly strengthened the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madison (1803) and other \n            cases. \n        2. His decisions greatly increased power of the federal government over the states. \n            a. Strengthened the union and helped create a stable, nationally uniform environment for \n                business. \n            b. Checked excesses of the popularly elected state legislatures. \n            c. Ironically, his decisions at times hampered democracy at a time when America was \n                become much more democratic during the Jacksonian era.