PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD TAKE A LESSON FROM FDR
By Thom Hartmann
A recent headline from the Christian Science Monitor lays it out bluntly : “ Majority of voters no longer trust Supreme Court .”
An entire series of outrages from the radical Republicans on the Court have ginned up calls for President Biden and Congress — should he be re-elected and Democrats take both the House and Senate — to “ pack ” or expand the size of the Court .
Outrages include Republicans on the Court overturning Roe v . Wade , gutting affirmative action , spitting on the Voting Rights Act , limiting civil rights , and a growing anticipation that the Court will soon go after the rights of queer people while further restricting access to abortion and birth control medications .
How did we get here , and what can we do about it ? There ’ s a remarkable history here , from which we can learn important lessons and take inspiration , as I laid out in greater detail in The Hidden History of the Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America . It should guide President Biden now .
With the 1929 onset of the Republican Great Depression and the 1932 election of Franklin D . Roosevelt , the Supreme Court and the president were about to seriously clash for the first time in nearly a century .
Four of the justices , Pierce Butler , James Clark McReynolds , George Sutherland , and Willis Van Devanter , were collectively known as the Four Horsemen . As FDR had success after success in passing major legislative
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