Eight decades ago, Democratic President Franklin Roosevelt attempted to pack the Supreme Court in retaliation for justices unanimously finding many of his programs unconstitutional. Roosevelt’s ...

Unhappy with the Supreme Court’s rulings against New Deal legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Court to as many as 15 justices. On the pretext that ...

But unlike wine, court-packing hasn’t improved with age since its embrace by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937. It also hasn’t grown more popular. FDR’s court-packing legislation ...

When FDR’s chief defender, Senate majority leader Joe Robinson, died in his bed of a heart attack, the president’s court packing scheme died with him. Capturing the drama, Alsop and Catledge ...

Roosevelt was “corrupted by power” when he pushed his notorious Court-packing plan in 1937. As a presidential candidate, he admitted he had “not been a fan of Court packing.” But then he ...

FDR proposes Supreme Court additions in 1937, Elizabeth takes throne after King George dies in 1952, truckers’ strike affects Sussex County in 1974 ...

President Franklin Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more ...

Roosevelt’s impatience with precedent led to his major political misstep, the “Court Packing” bill of 1937. Angered by the Supreme Court over rulings limiting his New Deal programs, he proposed ...

During his first term, Roosevelt continued to build support and to outpace his opposition that would form on both his left and right over issues like court packing, tax policies and class warfare.

Roosevelt’s impatience with precedent led to a political misstep, the “Court Packing” bill of 1937. Angered by the Supreme Court over rulings limiting his New Deal programs, he proposed expanding the ...