Judiciary Act of 2023

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3422 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3422

 To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow for twelve associate 
          justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 17, 2023

Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Schiff, Ms. Bush, 
   Ms. Norton, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. Lee of Pennsylvania, Ms. 
 Porter, Ms. Crockett, Mr. Vargas, Mr. Kim of New Jersey, Ms. Pingree, 
Ms. Pressley, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Mr. Garcia of Illinois, Ms. Lee of 
California, Ms. Schakowsky, Mrs. Watson Coleman, Mr. Beyer, Ms. Tlaib, 
  Mr. Boyle of Pennsylvania, Ms. Dean of Pennsylvania, Mr. Cohen, Ms. 
Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Balint, Mr. DeSaulnier, Mr. Payne, Ms. Clarke of New 
     York, Ms. Barragan, Ms. Sanchez, Mr. Torres of New York, Mrs. 
  Napolitano, Mr. Espaillat, Mr. Takano, Mr. Casar, Mr. McGovern, Ms. 
   Jackson Lee, Ms. Tokuda, Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. 
 Connolly, Mr. Bowman, Ms. Meng, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Gomez, Ms. Jayapal, 
Mr. Pocan, Mr. Robert Garcia of California, Mr. Lieu, Mr. Pascrell, Ms. 
   Chu, Mr. Carson, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Cicilline, Ms. Velazquez, Ms. 
 Escobar, Mr. Raskin, Ms. Omar, Mr. Thanedar, Ms. Kamlager-Dove, Mrs. 
   Foushee, and Ms. Waters) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 28, United States Code, to allow for twelve associate 
          justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Judiciary Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. NUMBER OF JUSTICES; QUORUM.

    Section 1 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking 
``a Chief Justice of the United States and eight associate justices, 
any six of whom shall constitute a quorum'' and inserting ``a Chief 
Justice of the United States and twelve associate justices, any eight 
of whom shall constitute a quorum''.
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