POLI2327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Living Wage, Childrens Hospital, Agricultural Adjustment Act
1 Apr 2014
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In depth of economic crisis: wave of ambition to restructure american government and meet needs of crisis, old lockner court is still there,though, no judges appointed by roosevelt. Four horsemen of the apocolypse president doesn"t have power under constitutuion: skeptics of roosevelt, voted as a block. Also had some confirmed liberals: holmes, brandeis, some felt that progressives shouldn"t be appointed because they can never be unbiased, cardoso considered the best judge/lawyer, from ny. 2 in the middle: hughes and owen roberts, had to be won over for fdr to win and weren"t won over for quite a while. Counting to four how you get case into supreme court: four justices need to want to hear the case. Counting to five how you win a court case: argue about whether horsemen or liberal interpreted constitution correctly, sick chicken case, takes on national industrial recovery act major pillar of fdr"s new deal. Conservatives thought the things would correct themselves.
