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The House is not needed to appoint justices, but the size of the Supreme Court is set by federal law, and you need the House to change that law to go beyond nine justices.
I'm fairly sure they would need the house to expand the court and add more justices.
I'm still not sure they had that option. It was something mentioned in various campaign platforms, and dems are very upset about current events with it. We might see some movement prior to elections? Not sure.
Unfortunately the dems do not have a true majority in the senate either. It hasn't been as easy as we hoped to get everyone on the same page.