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How did Chief Justice Hughes respond to the court-packing plan?

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The bill came to be known as Roosevelt's "court-packing plan," a phrase coined by Edward Rumely. In November 1936, Roosevelt won a sweeping re-election victory. In the months following, he proposed to reorganize the federal judiciary by adding a new justice each time a justice reached age 70 and failed to retire.

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