Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Court Packing Scandal

If you love a manipulated government, conflicts, communism and bailouts, then Franklin Delano Roosevelt was your man. “Far from pulling the country out of the Great Depression by following Keynesian policies, FDR created policies that prolonged the depression until it was more than twice as long as any other depression in American history.” In his 1932 speech when he accepted the Democratic nomination for president, Roosevelt promised to tackle the Great Depression with “a new deal for the American people.” Roosevelt took a pledge to "defend the Constitution of the United States," and broke it in the first hundred days. He expanded the Executive branch in more ways that were ever intended by the Founding Fathers by acting as a chief legislator for his New Deal economic programs. He saw Congress as being easily manipulated, and not as himself for an supporter and defender of the
Critics focused on the possibility that Franklin was turning into a dictatorship by attempting to seize control of the Supreme Court in the Court-packing. This would later be known as The Court- Packing Scandal, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted to increase the size of the Supreme Court as well as bring in new justices who would contradict and throw off the opinion on the Court. Franklin Roosevelt anticipated to pack the Court, on a case where conservative justices were there to speak out on account, the New Deal, unconstitutional. Congress stated they would not increase the number of justices, and Roosevelt was soon criticized for trying to undermine the independence of the Court. In the past, the court apposed pieces of the New Deal and argued it was unconstitutional and the amount of authority in which the Executive branch and the Federal Government consolidated went against want the Founding Fathers ever