In 1936, shortly after his re-election, FDR had a strategy on how to deal with Supreme Court Judges who overturned aspects of his state-sovereignty-robbing New Deal legislation.
He decided to “to pack the Supreme Court” with judges who would not consider his unconstitutional laws well, “unconstitutional.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt introduced legislation that would put in one of his appointed justices for every judge already on the bench who was over the age of 70.
The plan was so
unpopular that even FDR’s Vice President John Nance Garner,
“went back with him to Capitol Hill, stood in the well of the Senate and, as the plan was read aloud to the senators…held his nose and gestured thumbs down.”
Thankfully, FDR’s plan
was ultimately
rejected.
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