Eight decades ago, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt attempted to pack the Supreme Court in retaliation for justices unanimously finding many of his programs unconstitutional. Roosevelt’s ...
But unlike wine, court-packing hasn’t improved with age since its embrace by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. It also hasn’t grown more popular. FDR’s court-packing legislation ...
When FDR’s chief defender, Senate majority leader Joe Robinson, died in his bed of a heart attack, the president’s court packing scheme died with him. Capturing the drama, Alsop and Catledge ...
Roosevelt’s impatience with precedent led to his major political misstep, the “Court Packing” bill of 1937. Angered by the Supreme Court over rulings limiting his New Deal programs, he proposed ...
Roosevelt was “corrupted by power” when he pushed his notorious Court-packing plan in 1937. As a presidential candidate, he admitted he had “not been a fan of Court packing.” But then he ...
This marks the first serious consideration of court-packing since Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s attempt in 1937. To preserve America’s judiciary from this overreach, Congress should adopt the ...
Biden has long known that Court-packing is a bad idea. Over the years, he has called it a “bonehead idea.” He asserted that Franklin D. Roosevelt was “corrupted by power” when he pushed ...