FDR v. The Constitution

In the wake of Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s landslide re-election of 1936, the popular president-never anything but self-confident-unaccountably overreached. Deeply frustrated by a Supreme Court that had blocked many of his New Deal initiatives, FDR proposed to enlarge it from 9 justices to 15. The now-famous "court packing scheme" divided Roosevelt''s own party and inflamed the country at large, ...