Antecedents To The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill
The coming conflict with the court was foreshadowed by a campaign statement Roosevelt had made in 1932:
After March 4, 1929, the Republican party was in complete control of all branches of the government—the legislature, with the Senate and Congress; and the executive departments; and I may add, for full measure, to make it complete, the United States Supreme Court as well.An April 1933 letter to the president offered the idea of packing the Court: "If the Supreme Court's membership could be increased to twelve, without too much trouble, perhaps the Constitution would be found to be quite elastic." The next month, soon-to-be Republican National Chairman Henry Plather Fletcher expressed his concern: "n administration as fully in control as this one can pack it as easily as an English government can pack the House of Lords."
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