Legal News for Thurs 2/5 - Fulton County Election Record Battle, Jones Day Suit, Abbot's Deadly Glucose Monitor Recall and DOJ "Jump Teams"
This Day in Legal History: FDR’s Court Packing Plan
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, better known as the “court-packing plan.” This controversial legislation aimed to expand the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court from nine to as many as fifteen. Roosevelt’s justification was to improve the efficiency of the judiciary, but the underlying motive was widely understood to be frustration with the Court’s consistent invalidation of New Deal legislation. The plan would have allowed the president to appoint an…
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