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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Should President Biden Take a Lesson from FDR about SCOTUS?

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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An entire series of outrages from the radical Republicans on the Supreme Court have ginned up calls for President Biden and Congress -- to “pack” or expand the size of the Court.

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0:00.0

Should President Biden take a lesson from FDR about the Supreme Court?

0:05.0

The headline from last week's Christian Science Monitor lays it out bluntly,

0:09.0

quote, majority of voters no longer trust Supreme Court.

0:14.0

An entire series of outrageous from the radical Republicans on the court have gined up calls for President Biden and Congress,

0:20.0

should he be reelected, and Democrats take both the House and Senate to

0:24.4

pack or expand the size of the court. Outrages include Republicans on the

0:28.7

court overturning Roe v. Wade, gutting affirmative actions, spitting on the Voting Rights Act, limiting

0:34.0

civil rights, and a growing anticipation that the court will soon go after the

0:38.4

rights of queer people while further restricting access to abortion and

0:41.9

birth control medications.

0:44.1

How did we get here?

0:45.4

And what can we do about it?

0:47.1

There's a remarkable history here from which we can learn important lessons and take inspiration

0:51.4

as I laid out in greater detail in the hidden history of the

0:54.7

Supreme Court and the betrayal of America. It should guide President Biden now.

0:59.4

With the 1929 onset of the Republican Great Depression in the 1932 election of Franklin D Roosevelt,

1:06.0

the Supreme Court and the President were about to seriously clash for the first time in nearly a century.

1:11.0

Four of the justices, Pierce Butler, James Clark

1:13.8

McCranels, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Daventer, were collectively

1:17.8

known as the Four Horseman. As FDR had success after success in passing major legislative initiatives to rescue America

1:25.3

from 20 years of Republican maladministration.

1:28.7

The four horsemen were invariably joined by one of the other justices to strike down New Deal legislation that attempted

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