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Is Barack Obama trying to 'pack' the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals? »
In the Rose Garden on June 4, 2013, President Barack Obama named three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, a pivotal moment in a long-simmering partisan fight over the nation’s second-most influential court. That prompted Republican lawmakers have sharpened their rhetoric, accusing Obama of trying to "pack" the court -- a phrase that invokes the 1937 proposal by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court by as many as five justices. It’s no small charge: FDR’s scheme was seen, then and now, as a naked power grab. By proposing to sidestep ... Source Main page (current trends)
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