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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 history has characterized Owen Roberts' vote in 1937's case West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish as a strategic measure to save the judicial integrity and independence of the U.S. Supreme Court. In U.S. Supreme Court history, "The switch in time that saved nine" is the phrase—originally a quip by humorist Cal Tinney [1] —about what ...
One of Roosevelt's most severe political defeats during his presidency was the failure of the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, popularly known as the court-packing bill, which sought to stack a hostile Supreme Court in his favor by adding more associate justices. [1]
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.
By the middle of his second term, much criticism of Roosevelt centered on fears that he was heading toward a dictatorship by attempting to seize control of the Supreme Court in the court-packing incident of 1937, attempting to eliminate dissent within the Democratic Party in the South during the 1938 mid-term elections and by breaking the ...
After winning he won re-election in 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt famously tried to pack the Supreme Court with more justices in hope of diluting the power of those who’d been striking down his ...
In response, President Roosevelt proposed the Judiciary Reorganization Bill (called the "court-packing bill" by its opponents) in 1937, which would have increased the size of the Supreme Court and permitted the appointment of an additional justice for each incumbent justice who reached the age of 70 years and 6 months and refused retirement ...
FDR thought Americans were furious enough about the Supreme Court to approve of his scheme to pack it with new justices. He was wrong.