Robert Reich: Trump's Latest Tweetstorm Is Grounds for Impeachment

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31. You are right

FDR wanted to add justices that would vote for his New Deal programs. He proposed adding six additional Justices. These situations are the same except FDR was smart enough to not state his political reasons in an open forum.

Here is a good write up of FDR's attempt. The key lines (and something a student of history like Donald Trump should pick up /s):


But Roosevelt kept Congressional leaders, his cabinet (save for Cummings) and the American people in the dark, deceiving even the shrewdest experts.


He justified his request not by contending that the court’s majority was reactionary, but by maintaining that a shortage of judges had resulted in delays to litigants because federal court dockets had become overburdened.


Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-franklin-roosevelt-clashed-with-the-supreme-court-and-lost-78497994/#jYcVKacVe8Ip0pi7.99
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