A bipartisan group is pushing for the proposed “Keep Nine” amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would, once and for all, block efforts to pack the Supreme Court by fixing the number of members of the high court at its current nine.
When then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, tried in the 1930s to pack the court to clear the way for his controversial New Deal, the idea was met with backlash, and he withdrew the proposal after lawmakers from his own party turned against it.
