FDR's court-packing gambit was a disastrous failure: He was never again able to pass the kind of ambitious reform legislation he had during his first term. By 1935, however, the Four Horsemen felt ...

Mr. Roosevelt's plan, submitted on the controversial Wagner Labor Act brought the New Deal squarely to grips with the frequently discussed issue of constitutional change and Supreme Court reform.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a plan to pack the Supreme Court with up to six additional justices in a March 1937 "fireside chat." The Senate rejected that bid on July 22, 1937.

A modernized financial reform that can continue Roosevelt’s work to have a Congress full of people ready to tear all this stuff down would be disastrous. Because we’ve got our 401(k) plans ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt at his inauguration in 1933. He is being sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Hughes. (Getty) When the first Supreme Court of the United States was created by the ...

American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1862 - 1945) waves from a lectern just after he took ...More his 4th Oath of Office, Washington DC, January 20, 1945. Among those pictured with him ...

That’s also what drove President Franklin Roosevelt’s Supreme Court “reform” effort in 1937. FDR’s impetus was the court’s failure, usually on 5-4 votes, to support some of the ...

Assuming the Presidency at the depth of the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt helped the American people regain faith in themselves. He brought hope as he promised prompt, vigorous action, and ...

We take a look back at 1930s America and the extraordinary story of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal -- a plan to end the economic damages of the Great Depression.