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 ...

A troubling thirst for power threatens the remarkable tripartite system of government in America. Not even the possibility of controlling the executive and legislative branches after the November ...

A Literal War on Christmas Was Never About Israel, Either Audio By Carbonatix The other day, C-SPAN’s Howard Mortman flagged a clip from April 2005 in which then-Senator Joe Biden attacked FDR’s court ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Judging from their grandstanding during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearing, Democrats think the composition of the Supreme Court is a big issue in next month’s presidential election. Yet ...