When FDR Took On the Supreme Court
The standard narrative of Roosevelt's court-packing efforts casts them as a failure. But what if they were a success?
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When Democrat Franklin Roosevelt attempted court-packing in 1937, a prominent member of his own party helped lead the successful fight to defeat it.