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Dusty Johnson (R-SD)

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.

H.J.Res. 28 · House resolution Law

A Republican resolution with 108 Republican cosponsors · See all 108 cosponsors

Last activity — Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

In committee

Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.

The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.

Its path through Congress

  1. Introduced
  2. In Committee

What this bill would do

This joint resolution proposes an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The amendment would require the Supreme Court of the United States to be composed of exactly nine justices. If passed, it would require ratification by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states within seven years.