Other Sources I Am Using For My Paper Part IX

The article “The Role of Religion in the Defeat of the 1937 Court-Packing Plan” by William G. Ross will be used as a secondary source for my paper on the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. The article was featured in the 2007/2008 Journal of Law and Religion. 

The article goes into how religious groups were vital in the defeat of FDR’s Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937. The primary religious groups opposed to the “court packing” were Jews and Catholics, who previously experienced discrimination in America. Jews and Catholics were worried that if the Supreme Court could be changed in order to meet the political needs of a President, it could also be manipulated to restrict the religious liberties of an unpopular religious group. 

The Jews in particular had great reason to fear this due to the events taking place in Nazi Germany at the time. This article will be very useful for paper since it lists one group that was vital in the defeat of the Bill.