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INVITATION TO U.S. JUDGES. WASHINGTON, February 17. What amounted to hii invitation to judge* tl( get off tllC lil'llill MM* given in a broudcHHt by 111«- I'nitcd Slhlch Attorney-General. Mr. liiniuiiiigs. He was opening tile Government"« counterattack on opponents of President Koosi«xelt'n Mcheine for reform of the Supreme Court. Mr. ('uininings t<,ld the elderly jiiMticcx they could give up their neat* il Ilii-y feared the Court mhh going to lie packed. In a nation-wide hroudcaHt defending the President'* scheme, tin- AttorneyGeneral suggested that judges over 70 — there are six on the Supreme ( ourt Bench—were really "veto judge*." Hy veto judjjes he memit "judyis iipmi whom reactionaries relii-d tr> block piofrrenwive lawn." He denied that Mr. Roosevelt aimed at a dictatorship, or intended packing the (ourt. "If the judges think it would l»e Imiinfiil to incrcahC their mcfnbei>hip they can avoid tlmt n-Mdt by retiring on lull pay," lie mi id.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1937, Page 7
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