Question

How did Franklin Roosevelt try to counteract the U.S supreme court as it found his policies unconstitutional.

(A)he tried to have six more justices added to the court
(B) he attempted to reduce the number of justices couthe court.
(C) he demanded that some of them resign
(D) he ignored their finding and kept his programs.

Answer 1

(A)He tried to have six more justices added to the court.

As an attempt to get more support for his NDP in his second term, in February 1937, Franklin Roosevelt proposed a reorganization plan that would have allowed him to expand the Supreme Court by appointing one new justice for every sitting justice aged 70 years or older, resulting in a total of 50 new judges with six of them on the Supreme Court.

The plan, called by many “court-packing” was rejected. However, the Court ended up deciding to accept two of his New Deal Programs: the Social Security Act and the Wagner Act (Officially the National Labor Relations Act), which had been pending.