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Originally Posted by icenine
Can the court hear cases with less than 9 members?
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It appears so.
'If Republicans block Obama’s Supreme Court nomination, he wins anyway'
"After Justice Antonin Scalia’s death Saturday at 79, the Supreme Court is now evenly divided between four liberal justices and four conservatives, even with Anthony Kennedy’s occasional swings. What a moment for Scalia to depart: The court faces a wild array of closely divided decisions. It is an election year. And President Obama has stacked the lower circuit courts with Democrats. Obama has been chewing on his legacy for months. Fate has handed him the opportunity of any presidency — to swing the balance of the Supreme Court from conservative to liberal." WaPo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...mepage%2Fstory