Expanding The Supreme Court

[Rev. Rye]

Nobody read my link, I see.

I’m familiar with FDR’s Court-packing plan. While a blatant power grab, it was constitutional. That said, it was controversial even among Democrats, eventually died in committee after a bit less than half a year, and was ultimately rendered moot when A) Owen Roberts switched his vote on one Supreme Court case, and B) Willis van Devanter chose to retire and FDR got to replace him with Hugo Black. And he eventually got to add seven more after that, with a total of five in his second term alone.