Today in Supreme Court History: July 22, 1937

7/22/1937: The Senate voted down President Roosevelt's Court-Packing plan, 70-20.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

King v. Greene, 524 U.S. 965 (decided July 22, 1998): denying stay of execution and also certiorari; Stevens and Ginsburg would have granted stay (i.e., they didn't want this guy ever to be executed); King had kicked, choked and stabbed a woman to death; the Fourth Circuit had rejected arguments that he wasn't properly "Mirandized" (judges hate when lawyers use that term) and wasn't provided with a lawyer when he asked

Socialist Workers Party v. Rockefeller, 400 U.S. 1201 (decided July 22, 1970): in this dispute over a party's candidates getting onto the ballot, Harlan denied reconsideration of his July 11 order denying stay because served along with his carrot juice that morning was a letter from the Attorney General saying the candidates would be allowed on the ballot provided they comply with all the other (non-contested) requirements

Gregg v. Georgia, 429 U.S. 1301 (decided July 22, 1976): Powell, master of explaining the obvious, granted stay of numerous executions pending hearing of appeal because "if the executions in these cases were carried out before the Court hears the appeal, the harm to petitioners would be irreparable. In addition, the cases would then be moot." As it turned out, the convictions were upheld by the Court in Proffit v. Florida, decided October 4, 1976, and by the next day the mootness issue itself became moot

[DaivdBehar]

There should be a Judiciary Act. It should change the number of seats to an even number to end these awful 5-4 decisions. It should move the Supreme Court to Wichita, KS, the middle of the continental US, geographically and culturally. The Court has to be removed from the rent seeking, degenerate culture of Washington DC. I predict Barrett will become another Kennedy in 2 years.

If the delusion that the Supreme Court can make law is to not end, make the number of Justices 500, a proper legislative size. That would impart it the wisdom of the crowd.

No one who has passed 1L should ever be allowed on it. All are indoctrinated into supernatural doctrines and the rent seeking interests of a toxic criminal enterprise, the lawyer profession. These are all garbage people. Then, no one who attended the Ivy League should be allowed on it. Those are know nothing bookworms, arrogant enough they know how others should live.

All judicial review and executive regulation should require Congressional approval before becoming valid, in compliance with Article I Section 1, giving all legislative power to the Congress.

[Frank Drackman]

Court Packing? interesting concept, of course it would take the POTUS and both other branches of Government (HT Senator T. Tuberville) to enact, maybe it'll happen when "47" takes over in January 2025 (you think "45" tried some shenanigans in January 21? just watch what the D's (and a good many R's sadly) do when "45" wins in November 24'

[DaivdBehar]

That victory is a certainty. He remains a weak leader. He should have had the Secret Service eject those lawyers from the White House in a rough way. He will continue to be played by the scumbag lawyers. Start accumulating shares and assets. They will explode in value in 2025.

Fire the entire FBI, DOJ, and State Department on Inauguration Day. Replace them with real police, real prosecutors, and people loyal to our nation. Then arrest the real insurrectionists, Pelosi, and that Jan. 6 Committee. Put them in DC jail with the Democrat voters.