Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Most readers of this blog are familiar with one of the greatest constitutional showdowns in American history: President ...

“It was a bonehead idea. It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. And it put in question, for an entire decade, the independence of the most significant body… in this country, the Supreme Court of ...

Court packing, an idea that seemed forever discredited for 80 years after President Franklin Roosevelt’s notorious plan went down in flames in 1937, is back on the table. President Biden has appointed ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy has stimulated renewed liberal interest in "court packing" - the idea of increasing the number of Supreme Court justices in order to get a majority more ...