When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some of his programs were unconstitutional, Franklin Roosevelt responded by <u> D. trying to pack the Court with six more justices.</u>
As an attempt to get more support for his NDP in his second term, in February 1937, Franklin Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Reform Bill, a legislative plan that would allowed him to add more justices to the Supreme Court by.
The plan, called by many "court-packing", proposed to appoint one new justice for every sitting justice aged 70 years or older, resulting in a total of 50 new judges with <u>six of them on the Supreme Court</u>. This way, Roosevelt would have had more justices in favor of his plans and stop the Court from rejecting his New Deal programs.
