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good evening, i'm mehdi hasan. let us be clear what happened. a democratic president was elected to office in the midst of a once in a generation crisis, he entered into the white house with a mandate for the american people, a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with eight ambitious legislative agenda. but, a major obstacles hands in his way. a right wing, reactionary supreme court, with very little public legitimacy. sound familiar? this week, the supreme court wrapped up one of its most controversial terms in modern american history, scaling back decades of progres...

of a once in a generation chrysler. santa or the white house with -- a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with unambitious legislative agenda but a major obstacle stands on his way, a right-wing reactionary supreme court with very little public legitimacy. some familiar? this week discipline court wrapped up an immense most controversial terms in american history. scaling back decades of progress in the matter of mere weeks. we've actually been here before. following a landslide victory in 1936, president franklin d. roosevelt was elected to a second term in office. ...

Conservative justices known as the four horsemen, chipped away, one by one, at several key pieces of that legislation. fresh off his reelection victory, though, roosevelt decided he had had enough. in 1937, he unveiled a plan to expand the supreme court, increase in the number of justices from 9 to 15. take a listen to fdr explaining his reasoning for the proposal in one of his famous fire side chats. >> we have, therefore, reached the point as a nation, where we must take action to save the constitution from the court and the court from itself. we must find a way to take an appeal from the su...

Only a personal win, but a decisive victory for his signature legislative agenda, the new deal. despite the program's popularity amongst the american people, it face some serious opposition at the nation's highest court, over the years, fdr watched as the supreme court, led by a group of ultra conservative justices known as the four horsemen, chipped away, one by one, and several key pieces of that legislation. fresh off his reelection victory, though, roosevelt decided he had had enough. in 1937, he unveiled a plan to expand the supreme court, increase in the number of justices from 9 to 15. ...