Did Truman overstep his bounds as President?

Truman is one of these cases where history has been far kinder than his contemporaries. In the shadow of FDR and LBJ, Truman looks positively moderate, but relativism may be misleading here. There has been at least two instances where Truman inarguably and arguably overstepped his boundaries as a president. read more

To be fair, expansion of the Supreme Court was not unprecedented or unconstitutional; the main objection is that Roosevelt only wanted to expand the Court because they kept ruling his legislation to be unconstitutional. read more