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The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, [1] frequently called the "court-packing plan", [2] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the Court had ruled unconstitutional. [3]
Conventional historical accounts portrayed the Court's majority opinion as a strategic political move to protect the Court's integrity and independence from President Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-reform bill, also known as the "court-packing plan", but later historical evidence gives weight to Roberts' decision being made immediately after ...
The 1937 State of the Union Address was delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January 6, 1937, marking his fourth address to Congress.The speech was delivered shortly after Roosevelt's reelection and was the first time in U.S. history that a president addressed a newly elected Congress at the end of a term, rather than at the beginning.
“Packing the court would shift the court’s politics to harmonize more closely with the majority of Americans. The court’s constitutional decisions are always partly political. That is, the ...
(FDR’s court-packing plan, for instance, was never enacted, but many historians give it credit for inspiring the Court to accept the New Deal.) But that sort of pushback will be absent with a ...
While the Roosevelt administration waited for the Court to return its judgment, contingency plans were made for an unfavorable ruling. [2] Ideas floated about the White House to withdraw the right to sue the government to enforce gold clauses. [2] Attorney General Homer Cummings opined the court should be immediately packed to ensure a ...
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The National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government (NCUCG), also known as the Committee for Constitutional Government (CCG), [1] was founded in 1937 in opposition to Franklin D. Roosevelt's Court Packing Bill. The Committee opposed most, if not all, of the New Deal legislation.