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 ...

Unhappy with the Supreme Court’s rulings against New Deal legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Court to as many as 15 justices. On the pretext that ...

Five IHC judges have written to the chief justices, arguing that transferred judges must take a fresh oath under Article 194 ...

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 ...

Keep Nine Amendment would enshrine in the U.S. Constitution a provision to keep the number of Supreme Court justices at nine members.