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The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, [12] frequently called the "court-packing plan", [13] 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. [14]
Law reform or legal reform is the process of examining existing laws, and advocating and implementing change in a legal system, usually with the aim of enhancing justice or efficiency. Intimately related are law reform bodies or law commissions , which are organizations set up to facilitate law reform.
Archibald Cox, who as Solicitor General from 1961 to 1965 saw the Court up close, summarized: "The responsibility of government for equality among men, the openness of American society to change and reform, and the decency of the administration of criminal justice received both creative and enduring impetus from the work of the Warren Court." [18]
Mexico's judicial reform overhauling the country's courts, which will allow voters to elect judges, officially took effect on Sunday after the text of the constitutional changes was published in ...
The judicial reform currently under review by the Supreme Court has stoked concerns about the independence of the judiciary and the division of powers.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and his elected successor defended a judicial reform plan on Monday, saying the U.S. ambassador's criticism that it would ...
Chief Justice Taft led a public campaign for federal judicial reform. Chief Justice William Howard Taft, appointed to the Supreme Court in 1921, had led a public campaign for federal judicial reform since leaving the White House in 1913. Taft proposed the appointment of at-large judges, what he called a "flying squadron", that could be assigned ...
The reform push has led to a strike by judicial workers, strained relations with the United States and generated concern from financial markets, as investors worry about the security of their ...