For my assigned blog I have the court packing plan. The court packing plan was originally called the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, and it was proposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR created it to add more justices to the supreme court, and to get favorable ruling on the New Deal legislation that was previously decided as unconstitutional. The main reason for the bill was to allow the FDR add another justice to the supreme court, so there would be up to six.
Several New Deal plans that were meant to strengthen the economy during FDR’s first term were turned down by the supreme court. Since the the constitution doesn’t state there is a certain number of justices in the supreme court FDR thought he could get more in there. That way he could have more for his New Deal idea, so his bill would be passed. People looked at it as stacking the court leading them to call it the court packing plan.
FDR got his way and they passed the New Deal, it was a 5-4 ruling. But in the end FDR’s initiative failed because of the public’s negative opinion, one of the supreme court justices retired, and the death of Joseph T. Robinson. Through all this it showed his abilities of being able to keep moving forward. I think the court packing was a pretty good idea because it helped pass the New Deal which helped a lot of people. If it never would’ve been passed it they would’ve been struggling for even longer to get out of the great depression.
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