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 …
Few judicial decisions in American history have sparked as much passion, debate, and societal change as Roe v. Wade. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, effectively legalizing the procedure nationwide. For nearly five decades, Roe v. Wade …
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