Roosevelt's Proposal for Judicial Reorganization

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Roosevelt's Proposal for Judicial Reorganization

Date	Author and Title	Quote
February 5, 1937	Franklin D. Roosevelt Judicial Branch Reorganization Plan	"We therefore, earnestly recommend that the necessity of an increase in the number of judges be supplied by legislation providing for the appointment of additional Judges in all federal courts, without exception, where there are incumbent judges of retirement age who do not choose to retire or to resign." [source]
February 5, 1937	Homer S. Cummings, Attorney-General of the United States Attorney General's Letter	"Delay in the administration of justice is the outstanding defect of our Federal judicial system. It has been a cause of concern to practically every one of my predecessors in office." [source]
February 5, 1937	Homer S. Cummings, Attorney-General of the United States Draft of the Proposed Law	"When any judge... has heretofore or hereafter attained the age of 70 years... the President for each such judge... shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint one additional judge to the court to which the former is commissioned." [source]
March 22, 1937	Charles E. Hughes, Chief Justice, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Hughes' Letter to Senator Wheeler	"The Supreme Court is fully abreast of its work. When we rose on March 15 (for the present recess) we had heard argument in cases in which certiorari had been granted only four weeks before, Feb. 1." [source]
May 18, 1937	U.S. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary	"The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill (S. 1392) to reorganize the judicial branch of the Government after full consideration, having unanimously amended the measure, hereby report the bill adversely with the recommendation that it do not pass...." [source]