India has now enlarged its Supreme Court in circumstances that bear almost no resemblance to Roosevelt’s confrontation. The Supreme Court (Number of Judges) Amendment Bill, 2026, raises the number of judges other than the Chief Justice of India from 33 to 37. It is at once a constitutional court, a national appellate court, an error-correction court and, through Article 136, a court receiving petitions from an enormous range of tribunals and High Courts. A full court of the Supreme Court rejected the idea in 2010. Also Read | What the Supreme Court missed about hate speechAlso Read | The petitioner as suspect