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Historic battles over presidential control of the Supreme Court
The article traces the long running feud between presidents and the Supreme Court from 1800 through Reconstruction and beyond. It covers Jefferson's opposition to a strengthened judiciary, the Midnight Judges, Marbury v Madison, and later debates over adding justices under Lincoln and Grant. It notes how court composition shifted with political struggles and how claims of packing the court arose around Grant's era, though historians often exonerate him.
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Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Republic
Thomas Jefferson
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Edmund Randolph
Washington
Congress
John Adams
Federal Courts
William Cushing
Jefferson
Adams
Senate
John Marshall
Chase
Justice Cushing
New West
Kentucky
Tennessee
Ohio
Marshall
Lincoln
Stephen J. Field
Field
Roger Brooke Taney
Salmon P. Chase
Secretary of Treasury
Taney
House
Justice Grier
Severty
Grant
Grier
Treasury
Ebenezer Hoar
Edwin M. Stanton
Stanton
Wiliam Strong
Pennsylvania
Joseph P. Bradley
New York
Strong
Bradley
Hoar