#Bestof2021: 1/2: #ClassicRichardEpstein: Court-Packing stays in the picture. @RichardAEpstein @HooverInst
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🗓️ 24 November 2023
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https://www.hoover.org/research/supreme-court-commission-comes-through
Richard A Epstein, @RichardAEpstein Tisch Professor of Law NYU Bedford Senior Fellow; Hoover Institution; senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School.
1910 SCOTUS
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| 0:00.0 | We don't treat ourselves with a meal out. |
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| 0:36.4 | and returned to Supreme Court History. |
| 0:39.4 | It is called the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, remembered in history as court packing. |
| 0:47.2 | This is during the second term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who won an overwhelming victory in the 1936 presidential |
| 0:56.3 | election against South London of Kansas. However, that victory in an era with rudimentary polling apparently misled the supporters of |
| 1:06.5 | FDR and the New Deal. |
| 1:08.9 | There had been several disappointments in the first term having to do with the ambition of the administration to correct the now |
| 1:18.8 | called Great Depression at the time it was spreading worldwide and there was alarm all around the world we know of the catastrophes that were ahead of us in the 1940s. |
| 1:30.0 | In the time, FDR and his new dealers believed that the court was standing in their way, |
| 1:36.7 | led by a man named Charles Evans Hughes, former Supreme Court Associate Justice, former Governor of New York, former presidential |
| 1:44.9 | candidate he lost in 1916 to Woodrow Wilson. And now the and now the Chief |
| 1:52.0 | Justice of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:54.3 | FDR's complaint was that the court was not catching up with all the work that was before |
| 1:59.9 | it and it needed help. |
| 2:01.9 | It was called court packing. He wanted to grow the court so that it was said |
| 2:06.8 | they could handle all the details. Charles Evans Hughes pushed back on that saying, we're |
| 2:11.3 | doing fine. However, it came to public opinion and also |
| 2:16.5 | public opinion expressed in the dominant Democratic House and Senate. Dominant, |
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