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  2. Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. The switch in time that saved nine - Wikipedia

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    The Court's opinion in Parrish was not published until March 29, 1937, after Roosevelt's radio address. Chief Justice Hughes wrote in his autobiographical notes that Roosevelt's court reform proposal "had not the slightest effect on our [the court's] decision"; due to the delayed announcement of its decision, the Court was characterized as ...

  4. List of federal judges appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt

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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Following is a list of all Article III United States federal judges appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his presidency. [1] In total Roosevelt appointed 194 Article III federal judges, more than twice as many as the previous record of 82 appointed by Calvin Coolidge.

  5. Column: What FDR could advise Biden about reforming the ...

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    FDR thought Americans were furious enough about the Supreme Court to approve of his scheme to pack it with new justices. He was wrong.

  6. Franklin D. Roosevelt Supreme Court candidates - Wikipedia

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    In 1939, Justice Louis D. Brandeis retired from the Supreme Court, and Roosevelt nominated Douglas as his replacement on March 20, 1939. [14] Douglas later revealed that this had been a great surprise to him—Roosevelt had summoned him to an "important meeting", and Douglas feared that he was to be named as the chairman of the Federal ...

  7. History of the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of presidents of the United States by judicial appointments

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    As the first president, George Washington appointed the entire federal judiciary. His record of eleven Supreme Court appointments still stands. Ronald Reagan appointed 383 federal judges, more than any other president. Following is a list indicating the number of Article III federal judicial appointments made by each president of the United ...

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