The Judiciary Reorganization Act of 1937 polarized the nation; here Herblock makes light of the voracity of the congressional reaction in contrast with the unwillingness of the Supreme Court to render decisions about elements of Franklin Roosevelt’s agenda to recover from the Depression. Debate raged about Roosevelt’s desire for the justices to retire at seventy; whether it was Roosevelt or the Court that operated as a dictatorship; and whether Roosevelt should have proposed the reorganization. The Supreme Court’s silence on the constitutionality of some New Deal programs prevented Roosevelt from being able to fully implement them.