The Costigan-Wagner Bill was a landmark legislative attempt in the mid-1930s to make lynching a federal crime in the United States. Despite intense lobbying by the NAACP and support from…
In 1935, the United States Supreme Court decided the Gold Clause Cases, a series of rulings that determined whether the federal government could legally invalidate contracts requiring payment in gold.…
The 1935 Supreme Court case Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States invalidated the National Industrial Recovery Act, a pillar of the New Deal. The unanimous ruling determined that the United…
The 1935 Supreme Court case Humphrey’s Executor v. United States established significant limits on the U.S. president's power to remove officials from independent regulatory agencies. The ruling prevented President Franklin…
In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill to expand the Supreme Court and protect New Deal legislation. The resulting political firestorm in the United States…
