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Friday, 12/18/2015 8:48:46 PM

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FDR's Supreme court packing scheme did work. It cowed the Supremes - this is uncontested even among law school faculties. The entire tenor of the Supremes' decisions pivoted once the packing scheme was floated. After that, their jurisprudence gave us a boatload of horrible holdings, like the Wheat Case (Wickard v. Filburn) that the SC is still trying to correct today by carving it back (Logan v. US) (Comptroller v. Wynne), etc.

The packing scheme did work - politically - it intimidated the sitting justices to change how they ruled on New Deal and WW2 related statist Federal usurpations of authority.
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