President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduces the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, his legislative agenda to add more justices to the Supreme Court. Roosevelt, who had seen several New Deal bills ruled unconstitutional, sought to add more political appointees to neutralize the conservative justices.
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