[iamgalt]

Yes FDR tried it and the perception is the effort failed but the truth is to avoid the action the SC rolled over and gave the New Deal a pass sort of like Obongo care. I believe it was Jefferson who wanted to outlaw political parties, he saw they would come when said despicable party would emerge and carve out the country’s core to achieve total power and here we are.

[Reily]

Yes as Jefferson fervently formed his own party to counter the pro-federal government faction.

It's a ludicrous to think you can ban parties. Parties\factions are part of human nature. The only place where parties are banned are communist\authoritarian dictatorships & absolute monarchies. "Parties" still form to influence "government (and advance careers!)" over "issues" there just not out in the open. They're called "factions" !

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

I agree that the final result was not a total defeat for FDR. However, if no dems had rebelled it would have been worse. In fact, since that struggle, no serious attempt to expand the court has occurred until now.

In 1937 one dem representative said, accurately I think, that court packing in this manner is on the same moral plane as ballot box stuffing and jury rigging. Quite a painful rebuke for FDR.

But current dems have no such honor nor respect for the spirit of the Constitution. It's all about power.

[Pelham]

“I believe it was Jefferson who wanted to outlaw political parties,”

Not exactly.

Jefferson and Madison founded the Democratic-Republican party in the 1790s as opposition to Adams and Hamilton’s Federalist administration.