From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertram.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another edition of The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour.

On this episode, we'll talk with Paul Marino from Hillsdale College about court packing.

Also, Christopher Bedford from the Daily Caller News Foundation on media in the age of Trump and training young journalists.

Yvonne Pongrassik is an economics professor at Hillsdale College, but we'll talk with him today

about surf guitar legend Dick Dale.

And finally, Matt Spalding from the Kirby Center of Hillsdale in Washington, D.C.

We'll discuss a very generous donation recently made to the college.

First, we're joined now by Dr. Paul Marino, William and Bernice Grucoq, chair in constitutional history,

Professor of History, and Dean of Social Sciences here at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Marino, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me.

So we want to talk with you about an issue that all of a sudden is becoming kind of a big topic on the

road to 2020 among Democratic contenders for president, and that is the issue of court packing,

adding seats to the U.S. Supreme Court, and there's a couple of different ideas out there.

But let's start with some basic information. What, in fact, if anything, does the Constitution say about the size of the U.S. Supreme Court?

Virtually nothing.

The Constitution says that there will be one Supreme Court, and it mentions that there will be Chief Justice.

But it's always been up to Congress to decide how big the court is going to be.

Originally, it was six, and then it was lowered briefly to five,

and then went up to seven and nine as the country expanded.

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