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  • False. Roosevelt nearly did it himself until the court bent to his will, simply to preserve itself.

    FDR was pretty clear that MvM is being abused by the court to the point that it's no longer a judicial body,

    But a little later the Court itself admitted that it was an extraordinary power to exercise and through Mr. Justice Washington laid down this limitation upon it: “It is but a decent respect due to the wisdom, the integrity and the patriotism of the legislative body, by which any law is passed, to presume in favor of its validity until its violation of the Constitution is proved beyond all reasonable doubt.”[4]

    But since the rise of the modern movement for social and economic progress through legislation, the Court has more and more often and more and more boldly asserted a power to veto laws passed by the Congress and State Legislatures in complete disregard of this original limitation.

    In the last four years the sound rule of giving statutes the benefit of all reasonable doubt has been cast aside. The Court has been acting not as a judicial body, but as a policy-making body.

    https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/fireside-chat-on-the-plan-for-reorganization-of-the-judiciary/#footnote4

  • It's a demonstration of how far Democrats are from being a left-wing party.

    If left-wing policies are not seriously considered, then liberals cannot complain when the left doesn't vote for their candidate.