Nine-Justice Supreme Court Amendment

Official title: H.J. Res. 1, a joint resolution 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

What this does

This joint resolution would propose a constitutional amendment fixing the size of the Supreme Court of the United States at nine justices, one chief justice and eight associate justices. The amendment would become part of the Constitution only if ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states within seven years of its submission. It did not pass the House (vote 212-206).

House vote · 212-206

Democrats

1–205

Republicans

211–0

Independents

0–1

How we know · 3 sourced claims

The resolution would fix the Supreme Court of the United States at nine justices, one chief justice and eight associate justices.Source: Resolving clause
The amendment would become part of the Constitution only if ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states within seven years after its submission for ratification.Source: Resolving clause
The resolution did not pass the House.Source: House roll call 293, 2026-09-02, 212-206

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Reported lobbying

No organization named this measure in a lobbying filing we could read with confidence.

That is not a finding that nobody lobbied it. The disclosure form takes a free text description of the issue, and a reference that could not be pinned to exactly one measure is refused rather than guessed. This bill may have been lobbied without being named, or named in words we would not risk reading as this bill.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1 and 2026 Q2. The pull came up 2 short in 2025 Q4 and 7 short in 2026 Q2 against the register's own count, so those quarters are the filings posted rather than every one filed. 2026 Q3 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.

Your representatives

How did your member vote on this?

House roll call

The full roll call

R211–0D1–205I0–1

Position

Party

State

Republicans

218

Democrats

214

Independents

NayKevin KileyCA · District 3