In response to the Supreme Court’s treatment of New Deal programs, President Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Reform Bill (Option 4).
At the beginning of both Franklin Roosevelt's term (1932-1936 and 1936-1940), he didn't get much support from the Supreme Court toward his New Deal Programs. As a response, in February 1937, Roosevelt proposed the Judicial Reform Bill, a legislative plan that would have allowed him to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
The plan, also called "court-packing", proposed to appoint one new justice for every sitting justice aged 70 years or older, resulting in a total of 50 new judges with six of them on the Supreme Court. This way, Roosevelt would have had more justices in favor of his plans and stop the Court from rejecting his programs.
