This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—February 28 and 29 This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—February 27 1996—In a muddled speech on the “majesty of the law” at Suffolk University law ...
1937—Unhappy with the Supreme Court’s rulings against New Deal legislation, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Court to as many as 15 justices. On the pretext that ...