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Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States


  1.   James Chase, 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs—The Election That Changed the Country 105 (2004).
  2.   Sidney M. Milkis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy 56 (2009).
  3.   See also infra Chapter Four.
  4.   Senate Historical Office, Senate Progressives vs. the Federal Courts, US Senate: Senate Stories (May 3, 2021), https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/senate-stories/senate-progressives-vs-the-federal courts.htm.
  5.   A History of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings, NPR (July 12, 2009), https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106528133 (interview with Lucas Powe).
  6.   Melvin I. Urofsky, Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, in The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States 98 (Kermit L. Hall ed., 2d ed. 2005).
  7.   Letter from President Woodrow Wilson to U.S. Senate (May 9, 1916), https://www.brandeis.edu/library/archives/exhibits/ldb-100/career/president.shtml.
  8.   See Lucas A. Powe, Jr., The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2008, at 180 (2009) (“Brandeis’s take-no-prisoners approach to his public interest practice had something to do with [his opposition], too—as did raw anti-Semitism. He simply was not clubbable.”).
  9.   Senate Rejects Judge John J. Parker for the Supreme Court, U.S. Senate (May 7, 1930), https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/nominations/judge-parker-nomination-rejected.htm.
  10.   Id.
  11.   See, e.g., A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935) (voiding the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933); United States v. Butler, 297 U.S. 1 (1936) (voiding the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933).
  12.   Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking, supra note 37, at 602; see also William E. Leuchtenburg, The Origins of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Court-Packing” Plan, 1966 Sup. Ct. Rev. 347; Laura Kalman, The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the New Deal, 110 Am. Hist. Rev. 1052 (2005).
  13.   Robert G. McCloskey, The American Supreme Court 113 (Sanford Levinson ed., 6th ed. 2005).
  14.   William E. Leuchtenburg, The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt 134 (1995).
  15.   Id.
  16.   Alan Brinkley, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War 19 (1995).
  17.   300 U.S. 379 (1937).
  18.   301 U.S. 1 (1937).
  19.   301 U.S. 548 (1937).
  20.   See Leuchtenburg, supra note 135, at 177.
  21.   See Kalman, supra note 133, at 1055.
  22.   Justice Van Devanter Retires, Libr. Cong. (May 19, 1937), https://www.loc.gov/item/2016871705/.
  23.   Leuchtenburg, supra note 135, at 157–58.
  24.   William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal 239 (1963) (quoting Henry Wallace).
  25.   Id. at 156.
  26.   See Michael Nelson, The President and the Court: Reinterpreting the Court-Packing Episode of 1937, 103 Pol. Sci. Q. 267, 293 (1988).
  27.   McCloskey, supra note 134, at 113.
  28.   Leuchtenburg, supra note 135 at 156 (noting several respects in which “FDR lost the war”).
  29.   Kalman, supra note 133, at 1057.

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