What was a failure of Roosevelt's?

Answer 1

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt held office during one of the darkest eras in American history. The Great Depression was a presidential challenge, yet Roosevelt confronted the severe economic downturn with his New Deal. In the midst of reform, Roosevelt felt the Supreme Court was slowing his progress towards rescuing the nation. Six of the nine justices were less than supportive of Roosevelt's liberal agenda. To counter the votes of these justices, in 1936 Roosevelt suggested adding a new justice to the court for every standing justice that reached seventy years of age but declined to retire. While Roosevelt argued the plan, termed court packing, was meant to increase Court efficiency, several politicians understood Roosevelt's underlying motivation for a Court more agreeable to his policies. Roosevelt was accused of abusing presidential power and the idea was abandoned, but the failure and associated scandal cost Roosevelt a large portion of his support.