Now, more than eight decades later, some Democrats are once again urging an expansion of the Supreme Court in the wake of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death. Because of a cut in Supreme Court pensions, the older justices were disinclined to retire. The Constitution doesn’t specify how many justices should serve on the Supreme Court. George Washington nominated the six Supreme Court justices on Sept. 24, 1789, moments after Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789. All told, Roosevelt appointed nine justices to the Supreme Court.

Source: Washington Post September 24, 2020 11:02 UTC