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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]
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 ...
The correct argument against court-packing isn’t “we don’t have the votes to do it,” it’s “we shouldn’t blow up Article III because we’re pissed off about a few rulings.”
“Packing the court would shift the court’s politics to harmonize more closely with the majority of Americans. The court’s constitutional decisions are always partly political. That is, the ...
Here are a few things to consider about "court packing." The number of justices on the high court has remained at nine since 1869, but Congress has the power to change the size of the bench and ...
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 ...
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.
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]