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Hughes Checkmates the President
May 29, 1937 issue

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The U.S. Supreme Court reorganization legislation is in a very bad way on Capitol Hill and the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt has only himself to blame. The Chief Justice of the U.S. Charles Evans Hughes and the opposition were steadily cutting the ground from under him and he was clearly, losing votes in the Senate, the President persisted in his complacent confidence. In the inner White House circle, where the full significance of the Chief Justice's activities are thoroughly realized, there is bitterness and fury against him. So much, in facts that a serious canvass was made of the Constitution and statutes to ascertain whether, in the event the court bill passed, he could be replaced with a new Chef Justice.

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LEGISLATION; PRESIDENTS -- United States; HUGHES, Charles Evans, 1862-1948; ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; JUDGES; UNITED States. Supreme Court; UNITED States
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