Message to Congress on the Reorganization of the Judicial Branch ...

This message has dealt with four present needs: First, to eliminate congestion of calendars and to make the judiciary as a whole less static.

Fireside Chat on the Plan for Reorganization of the Judiciary

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution – not over it. In our Courts we want a government of laws and not of men. I want – as all ...

Fireside Chat on the Plan for Reorganization of the Judiciary

In this radio message to the American people, Roosevelt explained his plan to expand the number of Justices on the Supreme Court.

Message to Congress Recommending Reorganization of the ...

Message to Congress Recommending Reorganization of the Executive Branch. ... Now that we are out of the trough of the depression, the time has come to set our ...

Reorganization of Federal Judiciary - Robert H Jackson Center

When a situation exists in the Supreme Court which the President feels he cannot continue to ignore it is to the Congress that he may properly bring the ...

FDR & The Court Packing Controversy: Full Script

In February 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted a plan to Congress for increasing the number of Supreme Court Justices from nine to as many as ...

Judicial Branch Reorganization Plan February 5, 1937 - UMBC

I now make a similar recommendation to the Congress in regard to the Judicial Branch of the Government, in order that it ... A letter from the Attorney General, ...

Court Packing and Constitutional Revolution - Bill of Rights Institute

On February 5, while meeting with leaders of Congress and his cabinet at the White House, Roosevelt unveiled his proposal to revamp the federal judiciary, ...

New Deal Legislation | Pepperdine School of Public Policy

The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill to reorganize the judicial branch of the government, after full consideration, ...

Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary. Hearings before the ...

Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary. Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, seventy-fifth Congress, first session on S.

Special Message to the Congress on Reorganization of the ...

To the Congress of the United States: During the past three months, the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch, established in July 1947, has ...

ArtIII.S1.8.5 Congressional Power to Abolish Federal Courts

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and ...

Adverse-Senate-Report-on-the-Reorganization-of-the-Federal ...

He had just won a second term in a landslide, carrying a “New Deal coalition” of congressional Democrats with him. The U.S. Supreme Court was less supportive.

Reform the Supreme Court - Demand Justice is leading the fight

The Supreme Court is unethical, unaccountable, and out of control, and Congress must reform the Supreme Court now.

ArtIII.S1.8.3 Supreme Court and Congress - Constitution Annotated

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and ...

How FDR lost his brief war on the Supreme Court | Constitution Center

“This plan of mine is not attacking of the court; it seeks to restore the court to its rightful and historic place in our system of ...

Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 - Wikipedia

Since the U.S. Constitution does not define the Supreme Court's size, Roosevelt believed it was within the power of Congress to change it. Members of both ...

It Is Past Time for Congress To Expand the Lower Courts

It is time again to modernize the courts. The federal judiciary must be expanded, significantly and immediately, to meet the needs of the American people.

President Biden Announces Bold Plan to Reform the Supreme Court ...

This Court has gutted civil rights protections, taken away a woman's right to choose, and now granted Presidents broad immunity from prosecution ...

Court Role and Structure | United States Courts

Federal laws are passed by Congress and signed by the President. The judicial branch decides the constitutionality of federal laws and resolves other ...