Resources: FDR and the Supreme Court

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Bibliography

Joseph Alsop and Turner Catledge. The 168 Days (1938)
Leonard Baker. Back to Back: The Duel Between F.D.R. and the Supreme Court (1967)
Barry Cushman. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (1998)
Frank Friedel. "The Sick Chicken Case," in John Garraty, ed. Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution. (1964)
Peter Irons. The New Deal Lawyers (1982)
Peter H. Irons. A People's History of the Supreme Court (1999).
C. A. Leonard. A Search for a Judicial Philosophy: Mr. Justice Roberts and the Constitutional Revolution of 1937 (1971)
William E. Leuchtenburg. The Supreme Court Reborn: The Constitutional Revolution in the Age of Roosevelt (1995)
Walter F. Murphy. Congress and the Court (1962)
William G. Ross. A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1937 (1994)
G. Edward White. The Constitution and the New Deal (2000)

Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. Supreme Court): The official website of the US Supreme Court launched its official Website, including the full text of 1999 Term Opinions, background information about the Court and justices, Court rules, guides, and public information, including a visitor's guide.
Congressional Biographical Directory (United States Congress): A biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to the Present, searchable by name, position and state.
CongressLink (Dirksen Congressional Center): CongressLink, an educational website developed by The Dirksen Congressional Center, explores new ways to learn about Congress, how it works, its Constitutional underpinnings, its leaders and members, and the public policies it produces. The site includes lesson plans, guides, and online experts. These resources are being designed in cooperation with teachers of American government, American history, and civics.
Constitutional Issues: Separation of Powers (National Archives and Records Administration): This Teaching with Documents lesson plan of the National Archive's Digital Classroom uses newspaper publisher Frank Gannett's open letter denouncing Roosevelt's Court Packing plan to highlight broader Constitutional issues.
FDR Cartoon Archive: 1937—The Supreme Court (Niskayuna High School, NY): An online archive of editorial cartoons from the Basil Conners collection at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, created by Niskayuna High School's AP Computer Math class and AP United States History. This section contains cartoons devoted to the Court Packing controversy, organized by month.
FindLaw: Supreme Court Opinions (Commercial Site): FindLaw, a commercial website focused on law and government, provides access to a comprehensive online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, students, businesses and the public, including Supreme Court briefs, decisions, and news reports.
History of the Federal Judiciary (Federal Judicial Center): The History of the Federal Judiciary portion of the Federal Judicial Center's Web Page presents basic reference information about the history of the federal courts and the judges who have served on the federal courts since 1789. It is composed of five major sections: Judges of the United States Courts, Courts of the Federal Judiciary, Landmark Judicial Legislation, Topics in Federal Judicial History, and The Courthouse Photograph Exhibit.
The Oyez Project (Northwestern University): The Oyez Project contains unedited Oral Arguments before the Supreme Court in RealAudio format. Background information, the constitutional question, the conclusion, and the vote are provided for each case. The site includes an extensive database of historic Court decisions.
Supreme Court Collection (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University): The Legal Information Institute offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes, the court's electronic-dissemination project. This archive contains nearly all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990. The Legal Information Institute collection of historic decisions of the US Supreme Court contains over 600 of the court's most important decisions through the whole period of its existence.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (Library of Congress): Thomas, the US Library of Congress legislative information service, is the largest disseminator of national legislative information in the world. Among its offerings are bill summaries & status, full text of bills, major legislation enacted into law, the Congressional Record and CR Index, Congressional Committee information, Congressional directory information, information about the legislative process, and a selection of historical documents.