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During president Roosevelt’s first term, many Supreme Court justices:

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Not sure if this is meant to have options, but during the first time of President Franklin Roosevelt, many of the Supreme Court justices were opposed to the New Deal thinking it to be an illegal expansion of the executive's powers.

Roosevelt tried to counter by stacking the Court, which failed. He ended up getting the Court that he wanted over time as members died off and he replaced them with loyalists.

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