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Originally Posted by GGG
The legislative branch in theory does not have to approve to the Supreme Court judges. Historically the president and congress have also added Judges and changed the size of the court to ensure favourable rulings on their policies.
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Please listen to the guy who just finished a unit in his civics class. He's right on the nose. The system of appointment/nomination and confirmation has been observed since the introduction of the Judiciary Act of 1789. While the size of the court has fluctuated during its history, that was a result of the lack of centralized circuit courts to deal with federal challenges. Once these circuit courts, established with the entrenchment of the Circuit Judges act of 1869, returned the court to its current size, and has remained that size since. Again, domestic policy is controlled by congress. The president doesn't have much control over what happens domestically, and when he does, congress has the ability to provide oversight and balance to those decisions.