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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Placentia leaders have changed the rules for building in the downtown’s Packing House District to allow developers to create mixed-use and residential projects near the Metrolink station slated to ...

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.

Joe Biden’s plan to form a commission to “reform” the court system meant that he was “open to” court packing, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., argued on Thursday. “Court packing ought to ...

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 ...

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 ...