Roosevelt Stuffing The Supreme Court
The reason President Roosevelt wanted to expand the number of judges on the Supreme Court was to over power the nine judges on the bench with people who would vote the way Roosevelt wanted. Roosevelt was having some trouble with the Supreme Court that was determining some of his policies unconstitutional. Roosevelt decided since that in the constitution it never gives a set amount of judges that can be on the bench he would add more. With the more judges that voted his way he would have a majority and he policies could not be challenged. Roosevelt could get away with this because the constitution on
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