Derisively dubbed the "court-packing plan" — probably the first appearance of that term in political discourse — FDR's reform bill was perhaps his biggest single failure, and almost single ...

The Supreme Court in the 1930s. Photo: Bridgeman Images The judiciary, Alexander Hamilton warned, “is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced by” the political branches ...

On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, FDR planned to pack the Supreme Court to create support for his New Deal agenda, which sought to give government broader authority to help Americans recover ...

In July 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt swore in Attorney General Robert Jackson as a Supreme Court justice. Jackson and Roosevelt often played poker together. (Harris & Ewing/Library of ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his inauguration in 1933. He is being sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hughes. (Getty) When the first Supreme Court of the United States was created by the ...

If FDR could counsel Biden today, he might warn him to move carefully; FDR's court-packing scheme went down in flames amid congressional opposition, cut deeply into the popularity that had brought ...

Cartoonists from across the country react to consequential Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, student debt and whether business are compelled to serve everyone. 16 political cartoons ...

Jul 9, 2023 Jul 9, 2023 Updated Sep 6, 2024 0 Cartoonists from across the country react to consequential Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, student debt and whether business are ...

May 27 this year marked the 90th anniversary of the three Supreme Court opinions that invalidated much of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal agenda, aroused the president’s wrath at ...

The judiciary, Alexander Hamilton warned, “is in continual jeopardy of being overpowered, awed, or influenced by” the political branches of government. Never more so than in 1937. That year ...