Reply #3: One can dream. [View All]

[redstate_democrat]

:evilgrin:

But his court packing plan helped "switch" the court's rabid defiance against FDR and his plans to help the economy through New Deal legislation. Before then, the court was only interested in helping wealthy property owners protect what was theirs. When FDR threatened to raise the court to 13 members, then all of a sudden the court started saying the government could regulate in areas of the economy.

Hmm. I believe some arm twisting like that could also be in order pretty soon.