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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]
The U.S. Supreme Court’s term came to an end last month as the conservative majority released a slew of opinions that sparked widespread controversy and renewed the debate around court packing ...
President Biden compellingly stated his position in 2019 when he said: “I would not get into Court packing. We add three Justices; next time around, we lose control, they add three justices.
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]
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 ...
But one proposal that would require only a majority vote in Congress would be a measure to expand the size of the U.S. Supreme Court by adding additional justices to the bench — court-packing.
Biden also stated that "it’s not about court-packing,” adding that "there’s a number of other things that our constitutional scholars have debated… the last thing we need to do is turn the Supreme Court into just a political football". [7] Biden won the Democratic primary, and then the 2020 United States presidency.
The idea of court expansion only recently gained more popularity among some lawmakers and some legal experts, particularly on the left. But it’s worth noting, court packing is not a one-party issue.