American Government Basic Skills Practice Test

The question tests your knowledge of the Supreme Court’s size. Today the Court has nine members: one Chief Justice and eight Associate Justices, making a total of nine. That number is set by statute (a law passed by Congress) and has stayed at nine since 1869, even though the Court’s size has varied at other times in history. So nine is the correct figure for how many justices sit on the Supreme Court now. The other numbers don’t reflect the Court’s current size.