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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 ...
Black was a candidate from the South who as a senator had voted for all twenty-four of Roosevelt's major New Deal programs, [3] and had been an outspoken advocate of the court-packing plan. Roosevelt admired Black's use of the investigative role of the Senate to shape the American mind on reforms, his strong voting record, and his early support ...
FDR sought to increase the number of Supreme Court justices and then allegedly fill those new positions with ideological allies. FDR's plan was rejected by the American people and Congress.
FDR thought Americans were furious enough about the Supreme Court to approve of his scheme to pack it with new justices. He was wrong.
In 1937, Robinson supported Roosevelt's proposal to restructure the United States Supreme Court (the "court-packing plan"). This support may have occurred in part due to Roosevelt promising Robinson the next appointment to the Supreme Court. [14]
His court-packing scheme threatened to turn the Supreme Court into a rubber stamp, just like Congress, but it failed and dealt a serious blow to FDR’s power and reputation at the time.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940 (1963) online "The Origins of Franklin D. Roosevelt's" Court-Packing" Plan." The Supreme Court Review 1966 (1966): 347–400. The New Deal: A Documentary History (1968) Growth of the American Republic (2 vols.) with Samuel Eliot Morison and Henry Steele Commager (1969)