On the recordDecember 5, 2011
But when the President tried to enlarge the number of Supreme Court Justices back in the Court-packing days, when President Roosevelt did that, what this Senate did was they refused to go along.
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congress.govPatrick Leahy: “But when the President tried to enlarge the number of Supreme Court Justices back in the Court-packing days, when…”
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Leahy references historical Senate resistance to court-packing by President Roosevelt.
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