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Chief Justice Hughes' Letter to Senator Wheeler

Classification: Court Packing
Publication:
Date: March 22, 1937
Author: Hughes, Charles
Type: Letter

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.

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