What was the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937?

 To say in a 'nice way'.....the first four years of the FDR period (1933 to 1936) went badly in terms of key parts of the FDR 'way ahead' being deemed illegal (by the Supreme Court).

So in in the period after the 1936 re-election, FDR decided that it was time to 'pack' the Supreme Court.  This bill was constructed to further that agenda.  The central theme here?  The President would be given the 'power' to appoint an additional justice to the U.S. Supreme Court, up to a maximum of six additional 'chairs'.....for each member of the court over 70 years and 6 months.

You can laugh over the wording.....but that was the threat. 

The bill came out in the early part of 1937, and consumed an awful lot of discussion.

What happened to it?  The Democrats had more than enough support in the House and Senate, but it just lingered there in the House.....in committee....for more than 160 days.

The chief Senate advocate for the bill?  Joseph T. Robinson.....passed away in mid-summer of 1937.

If you stand over the wording....the same logic for adding more House/Senate members over the age of 70 years/6 months....ought to fall into place as well.

For this reason, I suspect that Biden's own chatter for court-packing will be reaching some peak in the next month, and then spiral downwards for the rest of 2021.  

Observations

1.  The odds of Biden's face-to-face with Putin?  I'd now put this at a 10-percent chance.  It sounded good for a one-hour media blitz, but I don't think team-Biden wants this event to really occur.

2.  This California effort to say high-school math is racist and involves 'white supremacists'?

A state program is being developed to change math.  This will revolve around the idea of avoiding the focus of math problems where you need to get the right answer.  It'd push for collaboration/teamwork to be pushed in classes....over independent efforts.  They revolutionize 'real-world-math' (begs the question of how much more real you can make apples and oranges formulas).

It sounds like they want math completely thrown out of school.  If that were the case, and you could also dump science and geography.....then you ought to limit school to two hours a day, or graduamatate out of school by age eleven.  

3.  You remember that story that the Russians were paying the Taliban folks a 'bounty' for each US soldier captured?  You remember how Trump said it sounded bogus.  You remember how the NY Times gave Trump a threshing over the intelligence?

Well....this week, US intelligence admitted that the story is unproven.  The intelligence involved is marginal.  Kinda funny now how Trump was right.

4.  There's a silly rumor that Mitch McConnell wants a 'truce' with Donald Trump.  Kinda funny that this comes up now....four years later.  Wonder who controls the 2022 mid-terms?

5.  Around 15-percent of Americans now say they are worse off at this point.....in relating to the Covid era.  The other 85-percent....mixed.

6.  A year ago....if you'd bought a warehouse of plywood for half-a-million....just sitting on it....today, it'd be worth one-million dollars.  The odds of it doubling again in 2021?