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This Day in Legal History: The Senate Rejects Court-Packing
On July 22, 1937, the United States Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to reorganize—critics said “pack”—the Supreme Court, voting 70 to 20 to send the bill to a quiet death. It was a stinging defeat for a president at the height of his popularity, delivered by his own party, and it settled a constitutional question that still shapes how we think about the independence of the judiciary.
The background was a collision between the New Deal and the Court. Through the mid-1930s, a conservative majority on the Supreme…
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