What now Democrats; save Obama and see 1938 repeated or save the Constitution and your seat?
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
In 1937 Franklin Roosevelt asked his Democrat controlled Congress to help him shred the constitution. He wanted to change the nine member status quo of the Supreme Court and pack the Court with six additional sycophantic judges who would rule in his favor and save his New Deal. Congress turned him down because it recognized the plan would rip the cover off their all-out socialist plans and feared the electoral beating it would lead to in 1938. The beating came anyway but historians say it would have been worse had the Congress not stopped Roosevelt.
Will today’s Democrats choose self-preservation, as their ancestors did when they stopped Roosevelt’s manifestly unconstitutional plans; or will they stand behind Barack Obama and his unconstitutional power grabs?
Roosevelt’s undoing
After losing a unanimous decision in a challenge to the constitutionality of his National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) in 1935 (Schechter Poultry vs. United States), Roosevelt was furious and determined to put the Court under his thumb.
The NIRA was the centerpiece of his Administration, so he could see what the decision meant to his plans for America. He immediately searched to find a way to circumvent the Supreme Court and its “pesky” insistence upon following the Constitution. A plan to pack the Court with six new members became his weapon of choice.
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