POLI2327 Lecture Notes - Sawmill, Fair Labor Standards Act, National Labor Relations Act
1 Apr 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Lecture 21: fdr vs. supreme court, it is the duty of congress and the president to protect the people of the united states to the best of its ability. Essentially, they have to save the country from the supreme court: fdr wins landslide election, add one justice to the court for every justice over 70 years of age (5) These justices were old, tired, couldn"t keep up with their business: everyone hates this idea, republicans don"t have to oppose because the people in his own party are appalled by this. Trying to impose a horse and buggy constitution on a modern world. Justice roberts votes to change his mind in the middle the switch in time that saved nine : court starts voting 5-4 in the opposite direction. Almost every major precedent goes in the opposite direction!: all the tests, distinctions, analyses were thrown away, all of these conservative justices start to retire, then the other justices retire.
