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What Lawyers Think Of The President's Court Proposal, Anon

Washington Law Review

The American Bar Association has announced that in every one of the forty-eight States and the District of Columbia, the members of the Association participating in its recent poll voted disapproval of an increase in the number of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States on the basis recommended by the President of the United States in his message of February 5, 1937. Members of the Association throughout the United States voted by secret ballot by mail, upon the various proposals affecting the Federal Judiciary, four of which were approved by a majority of the members voting; but …

The American Bar And The Supreme Court Proposal, F. H. Stinchfield

Washington Law Review

The issue regarded most seriously was, of course, the proposed increase of the Supreme Court, and, a bit more incidentally, the changes of the lower Federal Courts. Against such an increase the American Bar Association was emphatic. Thirteen out of every fifteen members said no such result can be permitted. This issue is the only one which gets much attention from the public. However serious the other considerations may be, the lay citizens of the United States can think only of the necessity of protection to their Supreme Court. Our influence in this situation must of necessity be great. Whatever …

Acts Of Congress Declared Unconstitutional By The Supreme Court, Anon

Washington Law Review

With the spotlight of public attention centered upon the Supreme Court controversy, it is of interest to the bar to be apprised of the number and nature of the decisions of the Court declaring Acts of Congress unconstitutional. The following list has therefore been compiled, with the cooperation of the West Publishing Company. The list includes decisions down to the end of the year 1936.

Curbing The Supreme Court-State Experiences And Federal Proposals, Katherine B. Fite, Louis Baruch Rubinstein

Michigan Law Review

The avalanche of proposals introduced in the last session of Congress seeking to curb the power of the Supreme Court to declare legislative acts unconstitutional and President Roosevelt's recent message to Congress on the judiciary have focused attention on the problem of the function of that Court in our governmental system.

This article does not take sides in the controversy. Its purpose is merely to review the developments in the four states, Colorado, Ohio, North Dakota and Nebraska, which by amendments to their constitutions have sought to place curbs on their supreme courts, and also to classify the proposals which …

The Supreme Court, The Constitution, And The A.A.A., Robert L. Howard

Kentucky Law Journal

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