Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1936 presidential election and later he proposed a bill to expand the membership of the Supreme Court. the law proposed to have six additional justices by adding one justice to the court for each justice over the age of 70. He wanted to tilt the ideological balance of the court so that it stop striking down his new deal legislation. This plan was widely criticised. It was not enacted by the congress and he lost political support due to the legislation. Shortly after he made the plan public and the court also upheld several government regulations that were declared unconstitutional by the court.
