Supreme Court Expansion Scholarship and Research

Explore scholarship and research on Supreme Court expansion, court reform, judicial power, and the history of changing the Court’s size. This directory includes academic and law-review scholarship, government research, institutional analysis, and selected reference and background materials. Inclusion does not mean that every item is peer-reviewed scholarship or that every source shares Supreme 13’s position on Court expansion.

Last updated: September 24, 2026

Charles Franklin, Marquette Law School Poll Finds Approval of United States Supreme Court Declines from 47% to 43%, Marquette University Law School Poll (September 17, 2026)

Various Authors, The Reconstruction Papers, Liberal Currents (2026)

Various Authors, Supreme Court Reform in the United States, Wikipedia (August 2026)

The Editors of ProCon, U.S. Supreme Court: Should Packing the U.S. Supreme Court Ever Be Considered?, Encyclopædia Britannica (July 23, 2026)

Mike Kersten, Deeper Dive: Court Expansion, Democracy Under Fire (2026)

Kevin Conway, New Marquette Law School National Survey Finds 61% Think Trump Wins Almost Always or Most of the Time at the Supreme Court, Marquette Today (June 4, 2026)

Scott Bomboy, Idea of Changing the Number of Supreme Court Justices Is Hardly New, National Constitution Center (June 3, 2026)

LegalClarity Team, Can the Supreme Court Be Expanded? What It Would Take, LegalClarity Administrative and Government Law (April 1, 2026)

Jamal Greene, The Nonpartisan Case for Supreme Court Expansion, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, forthcoming (last revised February 10, 2026)

Jenny Hunter, No Kings: The Urgent Need for Court Reform, People's Parity Project (October 6, 2025)

Dave Roos, Why Do 9 Justices Serve on the Supreme Court?, History (May 28, 2025)

Simon Zschirnt, Packing State Supreme Courts: Analyzing the Dynamics of State Supreme Court Expansion, State Politics & Policy Quarterly, Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 44-65 (March 2025)

Mark Tushnet, Court Reform for Progressives: A Primer on Constitutional Considerations, 2024 Wisconsin Law Review Forward 79 (November 6, 2024)

Harvard Law Review's Developments in the Law, Confusion and Clarity in the Case for Supreme Court Reform, 137 Harvard Law Review 1634 (April 2024)

Joanna Lampe, Congressional Control over the Supreme Court, Congressional Research Service, Report No. R47382 (updated December 6, 2023)

David H. Gans, Court Reform and the Promise of Justice: Lessons from Reconstruction, 27 Lewis & Clark Law Review 825 (2023)

Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, Final Report (December 8, 2021)

Ryan Doerfler & Samuel Moyn, Democratizing the Supreme Court, 109 California Law Review 1703-1772 (2021)

Eric J. Segall & Christopher Jon Sprigman, Reducing the Power of the Supreme Court: Neither Liberal nor Conservative but Necessary (and Possible), N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation & Public Policy (October 31, 2020)

Russell Wheeler, Should We Restructure the Supreme Court?, Brookings (March 2, 2020)

Ian Millhiser, Let’s Think About Court-Packing, Democracy Journal, No. 51 (Winter 2019)

Kurt Walters, The Supreme Court Has Been Expanded Many Times Before. Here Are Four Ways To Do It Today, Harvard Law & Policy Review (May 6, 2019)

Tracey E. George & Chris Guthrie, Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts’ of Appeals Image, 58 Duke Law Journal 1439-1475 (2009)

Civics for Life, Why Are There 9 Supreme Court Justices? A Historical and Constitutional Explanation

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