FDR's gambit : the court packing fight and the rise of legal liberalism /
When Franklin Roosevelt proposed adding up to six new justices to the Supreme Court in 1937, a firestorm exploded. FDR was accused of 'Court packing,' dictatorial ambitions, political trickery, undermining the rule of law, and undercutting judicial independence. Drawing upon extensive arch...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | When Franklin Roosevelt proposed adding up to six new justices to the Supreme Court in 1937, a firestorm exploded. FDR was accused of 'Court packing,' dictatorial ambitions, political trickery, undermining the rule of law, and undercutting judicial independence. Drawing upon extensive archival research, Laura Kalman revises the conventional wisdom by telling the story as it unfolded in FDR's Gambit. She argues that acumen, not arrogance, accounted for Roosevelt's actions. Far from erring tragically, he came very close to getting additional justices, and the Court itself changed course. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197539323 0197539327 9780197539309 0197539300 |