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backscatter712

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3. Congress has to pass a law to change the number of seats on SCOTUS.

Reply to LAS14 (Original post)

Sun Sep 20, 2020, 09:19 PM

Sep 2020

And they refused to do that for FDR.

Though what FDR did pull off was to make the threat of packing SCOTUS near enough that SCOTUS had the Switch in time that saved nine. In other words, Justice Owen Roberts (not today's John Roberts) switched the direction of his rulings, and stopped striking down New Deal programs, and that switch in time turned SCOTUS a bit more progressive for a few decades.

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FDR wanted to expand the court. Why wasn't he able to? nt [View all] LAS14 Sep 2020 OP

It's complicated. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #1

Because the bill failed. BlueTsunami2018 Sep 2020 #2

The Democrats of 1937 weren't necessarily liberals. A HERETIC I AM Sep 2020 #8

Especially the right-wing Dixiecrats, who are now Republicans SharonAnn Sep 2020 #9

Congress has to pass a law to change the number of seats on SCOTUS. backscatter712 Sep 2020 #3

+1. The threat alone was effective. dalton99a Sep 2020 #7

And I just had a random idea for gaming the system, assuming Biden and Dems win. backscatter712 Sep 2020 #10

Because his own Democrats held it up and the Court began to rule more favorably for Roosevelt... W_HAMILTON Sep 2020 #4

I watched Ken Burns:The Roosevelts BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #5

Read this Tom Traubert Sep 2020 #6