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The Court has been acting not as a judicial body, but as a policy-making body.
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gutenberg.orgFDR: “The Court has been acting not as a judicial body, but as a policy-making body.”
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Roosevelt accuses the Supreme Court of acting as a policy-making body rather than a judicial one, which he sees as a significant issue.
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