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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by 7speter on Sunday February 16, 2025 @09:07PM (#43074166)
To further drive home what actually happened with FDR, his policy proposals were repeatedly taken to the Supreme Court and a lot were struck down. It took the SCOTUS to realize that they would soon face a legitimacy crisis if they continued to enact the policy perspective that they wanted.

Oh, and before someone comes and brings up the court packing proposal, it didn’t have to happen, and FDR’s main claim to making the proposal was that he had a mandate based on his, iirc, at the time 3rd supermajority sweep of the electoral college, unlike, say our current President who claims a mandate while not even winning 50% of the popular vote and fell way short of even 400 electoral college votes.

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Re:US goverment seeks to rehire recently fired nuclear workers by JumpCrisscross on Monday February 17, 2025 @03:34AM (#43076624)
> FDR’s main claim to making the proposal was that he had a mandate based on his, iirc, at the time 3rd supermajority sweep of the electoral college

Court packing would have required the coördination of the Congress and the President to essentially remake the Supreme Court. It's distinctly different from Musk turning off funding to legally-mandated programmes.

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