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In the years that followed, Roosevelt replaced outgoing justices of the Supreme Court with people more in line with his views: [[Hugo Black]], [[Stanley Forman Reed|Stanley Reed]], [[Felix Frankfurter]], [[William O. Douglas]], [[Frank Murphy]], [[Robert H. Jackson]] and [[James F. Byrnes]]. Historically, only George Washington has had equal or greater influence over Supreme Court appointments (as he chose all its original members). | In the years that followed, Roosevelt replaced outgoing justices of the Supreme Court with people more in line with his views: [[Hugo Black]], [[Stanley Forman Reed|Stanley Reed]], [[Felix Frankfurter]], [[William O. Douglas]], [[Frank Murphy]], [[Robert H. Jackson]] and [[James F. Byrnes]]. Historically, only George Washington has had equal or greater influence over Supreme Court appointments (as he chose all its original members). | ||
Justices Frankfurter, Douglas, Black, and Jackson dramatically checked presidential power by invalidating the executive order at issue in ''Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer'': in that case Roosevelt's successor, [[Harry S. Truman]], had ordered private steel production facilities seized in [[Executive Order 10340]] to support the | Justices Frankfurter, Douglas, Black, and Jackson dramatically checked presidential power by invalidating the executive order at issue in ''Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer'': in that case Roosevelt's successor, [[Harry S. Truman]], had ordered private steel production facilities seized in [[Executive Order 10340]] to support the Korean War effort: the Court held that the executive order was not within the power granted to the president by the Constitution. | ||
== Table of U.S. presidents using executive orders == | == Table of U.S. presidents using executive orders == | ||