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.

This legislation proposes an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would require the Supreme Court to be composed of exactly nine justices. Currently, the Constitution does not specify the size of the Court; instead, Congress has the power to change the number of justices through federal law. While the number has remained at nine since 1869, this proposal aims to make that specific number a permanent constitutional requirement.

If this amendment were to be ratified, it would prevent future Congresses from increasing or decreasing the size of the Supreme Court without passing another constitutional amendment. For everyday citizens, this would mean the structure of the nation's highest court would be shielded from legislative changes, potentially stabilizing the court's composition against political efforts to expand or shrink it, often referred to as court-packing.

As a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment, this bill faces a rigorous process. It would require a two-thirds majority vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, followed by ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures, to become part of the Constitution.