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The fascinating, behind-the-scenes history of Franklin Roosevelt's attempt to load up the Supreme Judge has special resonance today as we debate the restrictions of presidential authority.The Supreme Judge has generated many dramatic stories, none more so than the the one that began on Feb 5, 1937. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, confident in his recent landslide reelection and frustrated by a Judge that possessed overturned a lot of his New Package legislation, stunned Congress and the American people with his announced motive to include six new justices. Despite the fact that the now-famous judge packing plan divided his own party, almost everyone assumed FDR would get his way and invert the Courts traditional stance and long-standing laissez-faire support of corporate and business America, so persuasive and powerful possessed he become.In the end, however, a Supreme Judge justice, Owen Roberts, who cast off precedent in the hobbies of principle, and a Democratic senator from Montana, Burton K. Wheeler, led an effort that changed an seemingly unstoppable proposal into a humiliating rejection and preserved the Constitution.FDR v. Constitution is the colorful history behind 168 days and nights that riveted and reshaped the country. Burt Solomon skillfully recounts the major New Package initiatives of FDR's first term and the rulings that overturned them, chronicling as well the politics and personalities on the Supreme Judge from the excellent octogenarian Louis Brandeis, to the politically minded chief justice, Charles Evans Hughes, to the mercurial Roberts, whose move in time preserved nine. The ebb and circulation of 1 of the momentous set portions in American record placed the internal workings of the country's capital on full view as the three branches of the government squared off.Ironically for FDR, the Judge that emerged from this struggle shifted alone to a liberal attitude, where it would largely stay for another seven generations. Placing the greatest miscalculation of FDRs job in context former and present, Solomon offers a reminder of the perennial temptation toward an imperial presidency that the founders possessed always feared.
