Roberts Invited the Court-Packing Fiasco
The chief justice’s attempt to shore up the legitimacy of the Court has backfired, inviting the very escalation it was calculated to avoid.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
‘A Measure Which Should Be So Emphatically Rejected’
How extraordinary an idea is court-packing?
Why FDR Chose Not to Desegregate the Military
An Oval Office recording from 1940 reveals how FDR resisted the demands of black leaders for integration of the armed services at the outset of WWII.