If Franklin Roosevelt were to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court and the Court were to declare one of the New Deal's favorite laws unconstitutional, most people in the U. S. would be magnificently astounded. Astounded last week, in just such a way, were the people of Louisiana.
Huey Long did not increase the size of Louisiana's Supreme Court in order to get himself a majority. He did not need to. He, and his machine, had the opportunity to get four friendly justices out of seven on the bench. It...
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