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Franklin Delano Roosevelt attempted to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937, not 1930. His idea was to increase the number of justices, and appoint his own people to fill all of the new vacancies.
While technically legal, most people thought it was bad form, and the idea was never implemented. And the advent of the European war in 1939 (which was obviously coming even in 1936) calmed down a lot of the political turmoil within the US as the '30s came to a close.
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∙ 15y agoFranklin Delano Roosevelt was accused of trying to pack the Supreme Court. Roosevelt was dissatisfied with the Supreme Court's older conservative justices, so he proposed legislation that would add a new justice for every justice that turned 70 years old and did not retire. This would bring in justices that would be more in tune with his thinking. This was not unconstitutional since Congress has the power to determine how many justices comprise the Court.
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∙ 13y agoNicole Sprinkle
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