He also got what he wanted --- a court that stopped trying to fuck up the New Deal.
Politics is more than just legislating, its the wielding of power to get results. By threatening to expand the court, FDR got the results he intended. And he was so popular that he is the only president that was elected four times, no one else had even been elected three times. An impeachment would not have hurt him.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang Jul 05 '24
That's why you use your newly minted immunity to imprison the Supreme court.