January 22, 2009
Given the sweeping executive
powers that President Barack Obama will have at his disposal, as
well as the increasing calls for a new New Deal, the lessons of
FDR's court-packing plan remain as relevant as ever. But, writes
Damon Root, don't expect to find them in journalist Burt Solomon's
new book FDR v. The Constitution.
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