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On 2 July the Senate voted to return the president's bill to the Judiciary Committee for further study — which meant indefinitely. On 26 August the president signed into law a much modified measure that made changes in the procedures used by the lower federal courts, but which did not affect the Supreme Court. In the next four years Roosevelt would fill seven vacancies on the Court, thus finally fulfilling his hope for the changes he had risked and lost so much in bringing about.
Sources:
Henry J. Abraham, Justices and Presidents: A Political History of Appointments To the Supreme Court (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985);
William E. Leuchtenburg, Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal (New York: Harper & Row, 1963);
Richard L. Pacelle Jr., The Transformation of the Supreme Court's Agenda (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991);
Newsweek (13 February 1937): 7-9; (20 February 1937): 17-19; (27 February 1937): 10; (13 March 1937): 7-8; (3 April...
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