On March 4, 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt stood before a weary nation as he was sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States. The country was in the grip of the Great Depression, with soaring unemployment, failing banks, and a general sense of hopelessness. But on that cold and uncertain day, Roosevelt’s voice …
1937 was a defining year for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who found himself at odds with the very institution meant to interpret the laws of the land—the U.S. Supreme Court. Frustrated by the Court’s repeated rulings against key elements of his New Deal policies, Roosevelt proposed a radical solution: expanding the number of justices to …
