Liberal Congressmen attacked President Trump for trying to fill the Supreme Court vacancy which is his job. Presidents are supposed to fill federal court vacancies, including vacancies on the Supreme Court. When he appointed a conservative judge, liberals said that if they won the Presidency and the Senate, they would increase the number of judges to 12 so they could appoint three new judges to tip the balance in their favor. That has never been done in the Court’s 200 year history. While the Constitution does not specify the number of judges, it has always been 9 judges. While every President has filled vacancies as they occur with judges whose philosophy they agree with, no Congress has ever increased the number of judges just to stack the court in their favor so they can push their agenda. That goes against the Constitution’s whole purpose for making Supreme Court justices for life so they would not be subject to political maneuvering by a President intent on bending the court to his agenda. It also sets a dangerous precedent. If this Congress increases it to 12, what is to stop the next Congress from increasing it to 15 to give a President a favorable court and the following Congress from raising it to 18. It would never end. Arizona has already passed a resolution requesting that the number of Supreme Court justices be limited to 9 and other States should do the same.