This had the potential of “packing” six additional justices onto the Supreme Court — justices whom Roosevelt would be able to nominate and whom the Senate would likely sign off on. It would ...

Wanting to continue appearing relevant, lame-duck President Biden has come up with a plan to reform the Supreme Court. His plan brings to mind the infamous court-packing scheme that was proposed ...

There are many reasons why President Franklin Roosevelt’s infamous, 1937 “court-packing plan” went down in flames the year after he won a landslide reelection, and even though his Democrat ...

Outright court-packing—adding extra justices simply to dilute the current justices’ votes—has been an infamy since 1937, when Congress rejected President Franklin Roosevelt’s attempt to ...

However, after FDR’s court-packing scheme went down to defeat, a justice named Owen Roberts made it clear that he would no longer vote with the Four Horsemen, which pretty much ensured that FDR ...

Wanting to continue appearing relevant, lame-duck President Biden has come up with a plan to reform the Supreme Court. His plan brings to mind the infamous court-packing scheme that was proposed by ...