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A 1937 Washington Post cartoon criticizing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to pack the Supreme Court. In recent months, prominent legal scholars on both sides of the political spectrum ...

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 ...

At The Dispatch, Adam White makes a key point about the Biden-Harris administration’s execrable Court-packing plan. Having noted that he has “studied these issues for two decades, most ...

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 ...

After rightly criticizing court-packing throughout his career, Joe Biden is now calling for legislation to strip current justices of their duties and appoint new justices. This would be a terrible ...

Still, packing the Supreme Court would amount to a significant escalation over the state-level court-packs favored by Republicans. But the Biden plan would not pack the Court by any reasonable ...

As any Texas voter knows, we elect our judges—and, except for our highest courts (the Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals), we elect them locally. That’s true not just for trial ...

This task for the justices illuminates the problem with court-packing schemes, old and new. Then, as now, the plan to pack the court came from intense opposition to court decisions.

Still, packing the Supreme Court would amount to a significant escalation over the state-level court-packs favored by Republicans. But the Biden plan would not pack the Court by any reasonable ...

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