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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Siegfried: [QB] There is a slight difference there, Mars. Roosevelt was attempting to pack the Supreme Court by having the Congress pass a measure that would expand the number of justices on that court from nine to fifteen. The measure failed in the Senate when that body voted it down in 1937. Roosevelt hoped that adding six more justices (likely to be liberal justices) would dilute the conservative voices on the court (and thus spot having the Supreme Court overturning all his New Deal legislation). What Bush is doing is waiting for the older members of the Supreme Court to either die or resign. Some members of the Republican Party and supporters of Bush are hoping that one or more of the moderate or liberal voices on the court will leave during Bush's term so that they can be replaced by conservative justices. That way the conversative tilt of the court can be increased without revisiting Roosevelt's failed packing scheme. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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