Franklin D. Roosevelt: Difference between revisions

He bent, folded and spindled assorted laws and roadblocks preventing overt US assistance to the Allies in order to provide as much support as he could against significant political and popular opposition, in spite of making campaign promises to keep America out of the war. Then the attack on Pearl Harbor removed any significant opposition to joining the war, while [[Adolf Hitler]] was obliging enough to declare war on the USA shortly there after and remove any real objections to fighting the Nazis taking top priority. His supermajority in Congress and his emergency powers enabled him to run the USA almost like a monarch. The length of his presidency also ensured control over the courts and by the end of his life only one member of the Supreme Court, Owen Roberts, was not nominated by him (Roberts would resign within a few months of Truman taking office). The rulings of his judges on his policies include several extremely controversial cases, such as ''Wickard v. Filburn'', ''United States v. Miller'' and most infamously ''Korematsu v. United States''. These are made even more controversial by one appointee, Hugo Black, holding a solid gold passport that was proof of his life membership in the [[Ku Klux Klan]].