Roosevelt, it should be noted, was no civil libertarian—and he certainly was no crusader for racial justice—but the president’s court-packing plan would not have endangered the Supreme Court ...

FDR unveils ‘court-packing’ plan, Feb. 5, 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt ultimately prevailed in establishing a majority friendly to his New Deal initiatives on the court. | AP photo By ...

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 ...

In 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was frustrated by the Supreme Court striking down parts of the New Deal he believed would help pull the country out of the Great Depression.

The court-packing plan “divided the New Deal coalition, squandered the political advantage Roosevelt had gained in the 1936 elections, and gave fresh ammunition to those who accused him of ...

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 ...

FDR's Court Packing Plan. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed eight U.S. Supreme Court justices, shaping the course of the Court and the country during the Great Depression and war.

Cartoon criticizing Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 court-packing plan. For much of the period from 2017 to 2019, there was an active public debate over "court packing." ...

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 ...

F.D.R.’s Court-Packing Plan Had Two Parts ... and the broader trends of which they are a symptom — underscore why it would be worth revisiting the other part of Roosevelt’s court reform plan.

FDR Presidential Library director Paul Sparrow discussed Roosevelt's court packing plan with scholars Ralph Blumenthal and John Barrett. The FDR library hosted this virtual event.