Cortez Masto https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Fri, 07 May 2021 12:41:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Cortez Masto https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 U.S. Senator Manchin and Growing Number of Democrats Express Opposition to Court-Packing https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/05/u-s-senator-manchin-and-growing-number-of-democrats-express-opposition-to-court-packing/ Sat, 08 May 2021 10:00:55 +0000 https://staging.illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=17383 Written by Liberty McArtor

A lot has changed since President Franklin Roosevelt tried to rig the U.S. Supreme Court in 1937, but some things stay the same—like widespread opposition to court-packing among both political parties.

When President Roosevelt tried to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices to advance his New Deal agenda in the late 1930s, his own party was key in stopping him. Despite FDR’s overall popularity, Congress—and the American people—recognized that his court-packing plan was a “bonehead idea,” to use Joe Biden’s term from 1983.… Continue Reading

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