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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senior lawyer and PTI leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain likened the situation to the 1937 "court-packing" plan of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "Court Packing is a well-known concept.

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.

In a move widely seen as "court packing", the federal government has successfully shuffled the deck in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) by transferring three judges from other high courts - a ...