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.

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.

His plan brings to mind the infamous court-packing scheme that was proposed by President Franklin Roosevelt during the 1930s.

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: ...

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 ...