Mike Pence said during Wednesday's vice presidential debate the public deserves to know the answer to his question, calling it a classic case of 'trying to change the rules' if 'you can’t win by the rules.'
Harris said Trump has been stacking the bench with people “who are purely ideological.” Of the 50 people Trump appointed to the court of appeals for a lifetime appointment, none are Black, she charged.Number of justices is not in Constitution
"There's nothing in the Constitution that limits the size of the Supreme Court," Josh Blackman, a professor at the South Texas College of Law, told USA TODAY."It's fluctuated over time." The number of justices through the Civil War went from a low of five to a high of 10. Congress has not changed the size of the court since the Judiciary Act of 1869, when it was set at nine.
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