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To: Williams

Exactly it. Vacancy filling is not the adding of additional judges to a system.

What is packing the court?

The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 (frequently called the “court-packing plan”) was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.


23 posted on 11/24/2017 6:44:09 PM PST by sparklite2 (?)
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To: sparklite2
True. A fellow Democrat, Samuel B. Pettigrew, excoriated FDR's plan to add extra justices to SCOTUS:

Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill, (D), Indiana: “A packed jury, a packed court and a stuffed ballot box are all on the same moral plane. This is more power than a good man should want or a bad man should have.”

91 posted on 11/25/2017 2:30:10 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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