Supreme Energy: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court docket

“A shocking work of historical past.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin, creator of No Odd Time and Workforce of Rivals

Starting in 1935, the Supreme Court docket’s conservative majority left a lot of FDR’s agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell briefly succession. It was not simply the New Deal however democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck again with an audacious plan to develop the Court docket to fifteen justices—and to “pack” the brand new seats with liberals who shared his perception in a “residing” Structure.