re: SCOTUS question, what stops Trump (or dems when/if they retain power) from "stacking"??

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The Judiciary Act of 1869 set the number of Supreme Court Justices at nine. In order for there to be more than nine, the U.S. Congress would have to pass a separate bill to override this act and that bill would have to be signed into law by the President.

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thanks, based on this it would be pretty easy to do

which makes it kind of surprising that Obama did not attempt this early on in his presidency (outside of the fact that he spent all of his early political capital strong-arming the ACA through)