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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]
Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-packing Crisis of 1937. New York, NY: Fordham University Press. ISBN 978-0-8232-2154-7. Philips, Michael J. (2001). The Lochner Court, Myth and Reality: Substantive Due Process from the 1890s to the 1930s. Westport, Conn: Praeger, Greenwood. p. 10. ISBN 0-275-96930-4.
The court packing fight cost Roosevelt the support of some liberals, such as Montana senator Burton K. Wheeler. [167] and commentator Walter Lippmann. [168] In early 1937, while the debate over the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 continued, the Supreme Court handed down its holding in the case of West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish. In a 5 ...
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]
February 5, 1937: Roosevelt's court-packing plan proposed; March 26, 1937: William Henry Hastie becomes the first African-American appointed to a federal judgeship. April 12, 1937: National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation: The Supreme Court of the United States ruled the National Labor Relations Act constitutional.
FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (2007). Crown. Jim Powell. How FDR's New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People (2003). CATO. Burt Solomon. FDR v. the Constitution: the Court-packing Fight and the Triumph of Democracy (2009). Thomas E. Woods, Jr. The Truth About FDR. Felix Wittmer.
Roosevelt appointee William O. Douglas was the longest-serving Supreme Court justice in U.S. history. Roosevelt elevated sitting Justice Harlan F. Stone to Chief Justice of the United States . Florence Ellinwood Allen , appointed by Roosevelt to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit , was the first woman appointed to 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 ...