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The New Deal

Question 8 • [HSSUS] US History, Sem 1 (26-27)

President Franklin Roosevelt’s judicial reform bill would have allowed him to

Answer
r
reject a Supreme Court decision by protesting to Congress.
d
decide which laws the Supreme Court could review.
a
appoint as many as six additional Supreme Court justices.
r
reapprove each of the nine current Supreme Court justices.

Explanation

Roosevelt’s 1937 judicial reform bill, often called the court-packing plan, would have let him appoint an additional justice for each sitting justice over age 70½, up to six more. It did not give him power to reject Court decisions or choose which laws the Court could review. The correct choice is “appoint as many as six additional Supreme Court justices.”

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