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Article: The court-packing plan.(Franklin D. Roosevelt's effort to get politically sympathetic justices appointed to United States Supreme Court)
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- January 1, 2003
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Can a president stack the U.S. Supreme Court with yes men? In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to do just that.
After Roosevelt took office in 1933, the Democrat-led Congress turned almost all of his New Deal programs into laws. Roosevelt, himself a Democrat, aimed to lift America out of the Great Depression. Because of vast unemployment and poverty, some of the laws expanded the government's ability to regulate business and agriculture. Others required worker protection and pensions. More laws established public works programs and government relief.
Unfortunately, the Depression lingered. Business owners were affected negatively by the New ...