The Senate referred the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937 to the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 70-20. It died in committee, so the Bill itself had no impact on the federal government or...
The Senate referred the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937 (aka the Court-Packing Plan) to the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 70-20. The Bill died in committee.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposed legislation failed when the Senate voted 70-20 to return the bill to the Judiciary Committee with explicit instructions to strip it of its court-packing...