JUDICIARY BATTLE
RADIO ADDRESSES IN U.S.A.
PRESIDENT MAY SPEAK
WASHINGTON, February 15.
Senator Minton, in a radio address, urged support for President Roosevelt's judiciary programme to "restore the balance of government which has been thrown oiit of gear by the peer sent membership of the Supreme Court."
He asserted that the Judges under the present system have more power than the President and Congress ; combined.
Senator Glass, in an interview, criticised the address given yesterday by the Attorney-General, Mr. H. S. Cummings, as evasive, disingenuous, and misleading. "I think it indicates that the country is in infinitely greater need of an Attorney-General than additional justices or judicial wet nurses for the six present justices," he said.
Mr.- W. G. McAdoo will defend the plan in a radio address on Tuesday night and Senator Byrnes on Wednesday, with the President ready to give one of his famous radio fireside chats if necessary.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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151JUDICIARY BATTLE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 40, 17 February 1937, Page 11
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