There are nine individuals from the Supreme Court, and that number has been unaltered since 1869. The number and length of arrangement are set by statute, and the U.S. Congress can change that number. Previously, changing that number was one of the apparatuses that Congress used to get control over a president they didn't care for.

Basically, without administered changes to the size and structure of the Supreme Court, arrangements are made by the President as judges leave, resign, or pass away. A few presidents have selected a few judges: the main president George Washington designated 11, Franklin D. Roosevelt selected 9 over his four terms in office, and William Howard Taft named 6. Each of those could name a Chief Justice. A few presidents (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Johnson, and Jimmy Carter), did not get a chance to make a solitary selection.
Setting up the Supreme Court
The principal legal act was passed in 1789 when the Supreme Court itself was set up, and it set up six as the number of individuals. In the most punctual court structure, the number of judges related to the number of legal circuits. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set up three circuit courts for the new United States, and each circuit would be kept an eye on by two Supreme Court judges who might ride the circuit for part of the year, and be situated in the then-capital of Philadelphia whatever is left of the time.
After Thomas Jefferson won the disputable race of 1800, the intermediary Federalist Congress didn't need him to have the capacity to choose another legal arrangement. They passed another Judiciary Act lessening the court to five after the following opportunity. The next year, Congress canceled that Federalist charge and restored the number to six.
Throughout the following century and a half, as circuits were included absent much dialog, so were Supreme Court individuals. In 1807, the number of circuit courts and judges was set at seven; in 1837, nine; and in 1863, the tenth circuit court was included for California and the quantity of the two circuits and judges wound up ten.
Recreation and Establishment of Nine
In 1866 the Republican Congress passed a demonstration decreasing the Court's size from ten to seven with a specific end goal to shorten President Johnson's capacity to delegate judges. In his first year of office, Johnson executed an arrangement of Reconstruction that gave the white South a free turn in controlling the change from subjection to opportunity and offered blacks no part in the legislative issues of the south: Stanbery would have bolstered Johnson's usage.
The Judiciary Act of 1869, when Republican U.S. Concede was in office, expanded the number of judges from seven to nine, and it has stayed there from that point onward. It likewise designated a circuit court equity: the Supremes just needed to ride circuit once more than two years. The Judiciary Act of 1891 didn't change the number of judges, yet it created a court of offers in each circuit, so the Supremes never again needed to leave Washington.
Franklin Roosevelt's Packing Plan
In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt presented a revamping plan to Congress that would enable the Court to meet the issues of "deficient workforce" and superannuated judges. In the "Pressing Plan" as it was known by his rivals, Roosevelt proposed that there ought to be an extra equity named for each sitting one beyond 70 years old.
Roosevelt's recommendation emerged from his dissatisfaction that his endeavors at setting up a full New Deal program were being obstructed by the Court. Despite the fact that Congress had a dominant part of Democrats at the time, the arrangement was resoundingly vanquished in Congress in light of the fact that they said it "undermined the autonomy of the Court(s) disregarding the Constitution."