Supreme Court (SCOTUS)

The US is 9 seats. It is US-only. Holding a justice seat does not occupy your current office: you can sit on the Court and still be a Senator, governor, or private citizen.

Seats

Each seat has a current occupant (a player, an , or a scripted historical justice) or is vacant.

Until a seat's first live confirmation, it replays an Original Roster: historical occupants succeed each other on authored years with no vacancy gap. The first presidential nomination that confirms a new justice is the divergence point for that seat. After that, succession is in-game.

Nomination and confirmation

The President nominates. The Senate confirms by simple majority, using the same seat-weighted Senate vote machinery as cabinet confirmation. See Confirmation Process.

A justice seat is not a cabinet office and is not gated by year the way HUD or Homeland Security are.

Docket

Curated historical cases resolve against the sitting Court. A majority on the case's tagged axis can diverge from the historical outcome; a divergence can enact policy through the same bill-enactment pipeline as legislation.

Surprise cases can also fire: non-historical docket items that resolve the same turn they spawn. They still produce a ruling from the sitting majority.

Tenure

Scripted historical occupants leave when their authored departure is reached. After divergence, a sitting justice (player or NPP) can leave mid-term; the President and occupant are notified when a seat opens. The Court does not keep a confirmed player forever.