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  2. Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. The switch in time that saved nine - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Stop Court-Packing Act - Wikipedia

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    The Stop Court-Packing Act was a proposed bill that was introduced in the 113th United States Congress on June 4, 2013, with the full title of the bill stating to "reduce the number of Federal judgeships for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit". [1]

  5. EXPLAINER-Democratic 'court packing' would prompt a ... - AOL

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    Here are a few things to consider about "court packing." The number of justices on the high court has remained at nine since 1869, but Congress has the power to change the size of the bench and ...

  6. Should the Supreme Court be expanded? Calls to pack the court ...

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    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 ...

  7. Where Court Packing Is Already Happening - AOL

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  8. Charles Evans Hughes - Wikipedia

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    While the debate over the court-packing plan continued, the Supreme Court upheld, in a 5–4 vote, the state of Washington's minimum wage law in the case of West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish. Joined by the Three Musketeers and Roberts, Hughes wrote the majority opinion, [105] which overturned the 1923 case of Adkins v. Children's Hospital. [106]

  9. Don’t Repackage Court-Packing - AOL

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