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The Abiding Shame of Packing the Supreme Court | Opinion On 4/15/21 at 7:02 PM EDT In 2005, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-DE) delivered a Senate floor speech about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt s doomed 1937 plan to pack the U.S. Supreme Court. FDR s plan would have permitted him to add six justices, immediately securing a pro-New Deal judicial majority. But in an act of great courage, Roosevelt s own party stood up against this institutional power grab, Biden recounted 16 years ago. They did not agree with the judicial activism of the Supreme Court, but they believed that Roosevelt was wrong to seek to defy established traditions as a way of stopping that activism. ....
Share Source: Tom Williams/Pool via AP On Thursday night, in light of the Democratic scheme to pack the U.S. Supreme Court, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke with Townhall about what he stressed is a power grab from the Democrats and a terrible idea. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she will not bring the legislation to the floor for a vote in the House, but Rep. Jordan wasn t buying it. He offered that the commission President Biden recently announced as an executive order is stacked in packing the Court, I believe, and then they do it, once the commission announces their findings. ....
In 2005, then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., delivered a Senate floor speech about President Franklin Delano Rooseveltâs doomed 1937 plan to âpackâ the U.S. Supreme Court. FDRâs plan would have permitted him to add six justices, immediately securing a pro-New Deal judicial majority. But âin an act of great courage, Rooseveltâs own party stood up against this institutional power grab,â Biden recounted 16 years ago. âThey did not agree with the judicial activism of the Supreme Court, but they believed that Roosevelt was wrong to seek to defy established traditions as a way of stopping that activism.â In fact, Biden actually ....