General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Who nominated them, and how they voted... [View all]I was pretty sure that the supreme court hostility to FDR was common knowledge to anyone who spent any time studying constitutional law and supreme court cases?
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan
Carter v. Carter Coal
More or less any supreme court ruling in the time of FDR before 1937 dealing with FDR's new deal policy initiatives was hostile to the concept and needed to be directly coerced in order to start supporting the laws. You saw similar hostility to Theodore Roosevelt among the supreme court. Simply put the supreme court is NOT a friend of the people and has done more harm than good by a large margin.
My point is nuanced: You can not rely on the highly unlikely event you can get enough supreme court justices on the bench as it is highly unpredictable and requires many things to line up perfectly. It is an important component but not the sole component.