{"id":103,"date":"2010-07-22T10:20:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/07\/22\/this-day-in-legal-history-fdr-court-packing-plan-rejected\/"},"modified":"2010-07-22T11:46:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:46:19","slug":"this-day-in-legal-history-fdr-court-packing-plan-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/07\/22\/this-day-in-legal-history-fdr-court-packing-plan-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"This day in legal history: FDR court-packing plan rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/07\/fdr.jpg\" title=\"Franklin Delano Roosevelt\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/07\/fdr.jpg\" alt=\"Franklin Delano Roosevelt\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>On this day in history&#8211;July 22, 1937&#8211;the U.S. Senate rejected the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/amex\/presidents\/32_f_roosevelt\/f_roosevelt_politics.html\" title=\"PBS American Experience\">court-packing plan<\/a> of President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/about\/presidents\/franklindroosevelt\" title=\"White House bio\">Franklin Delano Roosevelt<\/a> (FDR) by a vote of 70-20.\u00a0 After his landslide reelection to a second term as president, FDR proposed to expand the Supreme Court by adding one new justice for every sitting justice over the age of seventy.\u00a0 This scheme was defeated in Congress, but in his next three terms as president FDR appointed all the members of the Supreme Court, and these new justices were much more aligned with his economic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>For more extensive history on this constitutional battle, these books in the Cornell Law Library will be of interest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/supreme-court-reborn-the-constitutional-revolution-in-the-age-of-roosevelt\/oclc\/30111135&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"Cornell catalog record\">The Supreme Court Reborn : The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt<\/a> \/ William E. Leuchtenburg.\u00a0 New York : Oxford University Press.\u00a0 KF8742 .L65 1995<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/franklin-roosevelt-and-the-great-constitutional-war-the-court-packing-crisis-of-1937\/oclc\/49355855&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"Cornell catalog record\">Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War : The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937<\/a> \/ Marian C. McKenna.\u00a0 New York : Fordham University Press.\u00a0 KF8742 .M356 2002<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/franklin-d-roosevelt-and-the-transformation-of-the-supreme-court\/oclc\/49626495&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"Cornell catalog record\">Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Transformation of the Supreme Court<\/a> \/ Stephen K. Shaw, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams, editors.\u00a0 Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe.\u00a0 KF8742 .F73x 2004<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cornell.worldcat.org\/title\/supreme-power-franklin-roosevelt-vs-the-supreme-court\/oclc\/317919798&amp;referer=brief_results\" title=\"Cornell catalog record\">Supreme Power : Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court<\/a> \/ Jeff Shesol. New York, NY : W.W. Norton.\u00a0 KF8742 .S495x 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in history&#8211;July 22, 1937&#8211;the U.S. Senate rejected the court-packing plan of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) by a vote of 70-20.\u00a0 After his landslide reelection to a second term as president, FDR proposed to expand the Supreme Court by adding one new justice for every sitting justice over the age of seventy.\u00a0 <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/07\/22\/this-day-in-legal-history-fdr-court-packing-plan-rejected\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306],"tags":[191,514],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pat-court","tag-supreme-court","tag-this-day-in-legal-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}