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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to require that the Supreme Court of the United States be composed of nine justices.

118th Congress

Law

In Committee

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Introduced

Committee

Floor Vote

Other Chamber

Enacted

Introduced

January 9, 2023

Latest Action

January 9, 2023

Primary Sponsor

Dusty JohnsonRepublican(SD)

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vs 230 other HJRES bills in the 118th — cohort avg 27d

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No CRS summary is available for this bill yet. The source title, actions, sponsors, and text versions below come from Congress.gov.

Subjects (3)

Constitution and constitutional amendments

Judges

Supreme Court

Actions (2)

January 9, 2023

Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

January 9, 2023

Introduced in House

Congress.gov source codes: 1000, Intro-H

Committees

Committee	Chamber	Activity	Date
Judiciary Committee	House	Referred To	January 9, 2023

Text Versions

Version	Date	Links
Introduced in House	January 9, 2023	XML

Cosponsors (152)

Name	Party	State
A. Drew Ferguson IV	Republican	GA
Aaron Bean	Republican	FL
Andrew Ogles	Republican	TN

Related Bills (4)

Bill	Congress	Relationship
SJRES 21	118th	Identical bill
SJRES 16	118th	Related bill
HJRES 81	118th	Related bill

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Sources: Congress.gov