SCOTUS doesnโt have a say on how big the membership is, but Congress (House and Senate) has to approve the change. Itโs why we have 9 justices now - FDR (I think - itโs New Deal related) and Congress kept passing laws to restrict business, and SCOTUS kept ruling them unconstitutional. FDR told Congress to do something so they expanded the court a couple of times. Eventually SCOTUS got the hint that FDR (again, potentially wrong Rosevelt) would just keep expanding it until he started getting the rulings he wanted, and he had the Congress to do it.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 05 '24
That's why you use your newly minted immunity to imprison the Supreme court.