On July 22, 1937, the US Senate voted down the Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, nicknamed FDR's Court Packing Plan. The point of the bill was to change the makeup of the Supreme Court. Previous to Franklin D. Roosevelt's election as president, conservative justices had been placed on the Supreme Court who had a strict constructionist view of federal regulations and the Constitution. Roosevelt was attempting to add members to the Supreme Court who would uphold measures of the New Deal.
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