PACKING THE COURT

F.D.R. Packing Panel

These nine Justices were put in the position of deciding whether Roosevelts “New Deal” was to die on the vine of suggestion or whether it passed constitutional muster. The Court was so divided they morphed into two camps. One known as “the 3 musketeers” (Stone, Brandeis and Cardozo) the other group were dubbed “the four horsemen” (Justices Butler, McReynolds, Sutherland, and Van Devanter).