FDR and the Transformation of the Supreme Court

Tuesday, December 13 | 12 p.m. ET

Legal historian Laura Kalman, author of FDR’s Gambit: The Court Packing Fight and the Rise of Legal Liberalism; Ken Kersch, professor of political science at Boston College; and Jeff Shesol, author of Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court, discuss Franklin D. Roosevelt’s constitutional legacy, the court-packing fight, and how his Supreme Court appointees transformed America. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.

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