The Court in addition to the proper use of its judicial functions has improperly set itself up as a third house of the Congress--a super-legislature, as one of the justices has called it--reading into the Constitution words and implications which are not there, and which were never intended to be there.
Roosevelt criticizes the Court for overstepping its judicial role and acting as a super-legislature, which he believes undermines the Constitution.
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