Any historians remember what issues arose to make FDR consider adding SC justices?

[captain queeg]

[Demsrule86]

1. They were ruling against the new deal...so he attempted to pack the court...he didn't have the

votes but the court knocked it off in fear he might get the votes if they continued to obstuct.

[roamer65]

2. Overturning of key New Deal legislation.

https://supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-courts/hughes-court-1930-1941/

[Effete Snob]

3. RW Opposition to the New Deal

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-fdr-lost-his-brief-war-on-the-supreme-court-2

[BigmanPigman]

4. I watched The Roosevelts on PBS

and I am not a historian but if memory serves me FDR's court wasn't passing his "new deal" programs. He threatened to expand the court but it was frowned upon as being too political by Dems and GOP. By the time he died in office most of the justices he wanted to replace were no longer on the court.

[MichMan]

6. Why did the court go along with the internment of the Japanese Americans?

I dont understand how that was considered acceptable at the time.

[Frasier Balzov]

8. Racial prejudice and national paranoia about the enemy.

You might as well ask why the Roosevelt Administration sought internment in the first place.

Know what else was considered acceptable at the time? U.S. armed forces were still segregated.

[iemanja]

7. It didn't work

That's the take away.