The Supreme Court was established in 1789. At that time there were only six justices, and now after a while of the Supreme Court evolving there are nine. There are nine because there cannot be an even number because if four justices' vote in favor of the defendant and four vote for the plaintiff then they got nowhere with the case. They need to have an odd number in order for the plaintiff to either win or lose the case. The current justices are John Robert's Jr. (Chief Justice), Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. Some very important cases that have occurred are Roe v. Wade (Enabled women to have abortions during first two trimesters), Texas v. Johnson, which found that burning the flag amongst other offensive speech are protected by the first amendment, Obergefell v. Hodges, which allowed same sex marriage across all fifty states and there are many more important cases that have happened.
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