FDR: “Our difficulty with the Court today rises not from the Court as an…”

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Our difficulty with the Court today rises not from the Court as an institution but from human beings within it.

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Roosevelt points out that the issues with the Supreme Court stem from individual justices rather than the institution itself.

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FDR: “Our difficulty with the Court today rises not from the Court as an institution but from human beings within it.”