Question

Why did President Roosevelt try to pack the Supreme Court? Why did this anger

both his opponents and his supporters?

Answer 1

Over the course of the Depression, Roosevelt was pushing through legislation and, beginning in May 1935, the Supreme Court began to strike down a number of the New Deal laws. Roosevelt’s first New Deal program in particular, its centerpiece, the National Recovery Administration, along with parts of the Agricultural Adjustment Act had been struck down by unanimous and near unanimous votes. Roosevelt’s attempt to appoint up to six additional justices to the Supreme Court for every justice older than 70 years, 6 months, who had served 10 years or more.

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Answer 2

Answer: On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a controversial plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal.