On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt submitted to Congress a sweeping and controversial proposal to reorganize the federal judiciary. Dubbed the "court-packing" plan by its ...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden continues to give ambiguous answers on whether he supports his fellow Democrats’ extreme calls for packing the Supreme Court, saying this past week that he ...

Newsweek senior editor-at-large and host, "The Josh Hammer Show" Roosevelt's plan was soundly defeated on the floor of the Democrat-dominated Senate, and no president or political party since has had ...

FDR wasted an electoral mandate on a bid to expand the Supreme Court. It caused lasting damage to his party and the progressive agenda. The 1936 election was a stunning victory for the Democrats.

On this day in history, Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 justices. While the 32nd U.S. president claimed the plan was to ...

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 Party ...

Cartoon criticizing Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1937 court-packing plan. For much of the period from 2017 to 2019, there was an active public debate over "court packing." The first round of that debate ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has nixed a proposal to expand the U.S. Supreme Court, telling reporters Thursday that she won't advance legislation some Democrats unveiled this week. "I have no plan to ...

American-history classes often treat FDR’s 1937 “court-packing” scheme — a proposal to expand the size of the Supreme Court by adding as many as six justices — as a classic example of presidential ...

The move — a radical idea that broadens the Supreme Court by adding more judges than what exists now — would tilt the highest court to be more left-leaning if Biden is elected and Democrats rally ...