Were there ever fewer than nine US Supreme Court justices?
Justices on Supreme Court Congress has the power set the number of Supreme Court Justices and has the power to change the number of justices. Over the years, the number of justices has varied from 5 to 10. Since 1869, the number has remained at 9.
Eight associate justices and one Chief Justice. In 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to get Congress to increase the number of justices to 15 but they refused Answer The Supreme Court of the United States comprises nine justices: one Chief Justice, and eight Associate Justices The Judiciary Act of 1789 provided for a 6-member Court, with a Chief Justice and 5 Associate Justices.
Congress adjusted the size of the Court a number of times through the during the 19th-century Judiciary Act of 1801: Court size, 5 Repeal Act of 1802: Court size, 6 Judiciary Act of 1807: Court size, 7 Judiciary Act of 1837: Court size, 9 Judiciary Act of 1863: Court size, 10 Judiciary Act of 1866: Court size, 7 Judiciary Act of 1867: Court size, 8 Judiciary Act of 1869: Court size, 9 After the election of President Ulysses S. Grant, Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1869, which set the Court's membership at nine. This number has remained the same ever since In 1937, Franklin D.
Roosevelt attempted unsuccessfully to expand the membership of the court to gain support on the Court for his New Deal programs. He proposed adding one justice to the Supreme Court for every member over 70.5 years of age, with the potential of adding as many as six additional justices, for a total of 15. Congress refused to pass Roosevelt's legislation; however, the President had an opportunity to nominate eight justices* to vacancies that occurred during his terms of office, which created a court more receptive to his ideas.
Some major U.S. religious groups which have never been represented on the U.S. Supreme Court: Pentecostals (2.1%), Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints/Mormons (2%), Muslims (1.5%), GLBT (1.5%), Buddhists (0.5% to 0.8%), Jehovah's Witnesses (0.6%), Mennonites (0.6%), Eastern Orthodox (approx. * "Protestant" not further defined: According to 2000 Gallup polling data, 57% of Americans identify themselves as Protestants. But most also identify with a specific denomination or denominational family.
In the 1990 Kosmin NSRI survey, 9.7% of Americans stated their religious preference as "Protestant", without further denominational identification. It is important to note that the relative proportion of membership in various religious groups has changed dramatically over the course of U.S. history. For example, when the nation was founded, Congregationalists and Episcopalians were among the largest denominations, but there were very few Catholics.
Today, the Catholic Church is the largest U.S. denomination. Also, there are only nine Supreme Court justices, so it would be impossible to ever have a Court that reflects every possible demographic group. So, to compare the proportion of Supreme Court justices in various denominations from throughout U.S. history versus the proportion of U.S. citizens in those denominations today is not as meaningful as, for example, comparing the current religious composition of the U.S. House of Representatives to the current religious demographics of the U.S. population.
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