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 ...

On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 justices. While the 32nd U.S. president claimed the plan was 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 ...

President Joe Biden’s plan to tamper with the U.S. Supreme Court relies on arguments that former President Franklin D. Roosevelt deployed in 1937 for his infamous court-packing scheme.

In the end, Roosevelt’s plan failed because Democrats in Congress thought Court packing was dangerous, even if they would have supported the newly constituted Court’s rulings. Biden concluded: ...

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 ...