The Abiding Shame of ‘Packing’ the Supreme Court

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Commentary In 2005, then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) delivered a Senate floor speech about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s doomed 1937 plan to “pack” the U.S. Supreme Court. FDR’s plan would have permitted him to add six justices, immediately securing a pro-New Deal judicial majority. But “in an act of great courage, Roosevelt’s own party stood up […]

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