Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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court-packing plan
A unsuccessful proposal -made in 1937 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt - to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices from nine to fifteen. ( The ostensible purpose of the proposal was to increase the court's efficiency, but President Roosevelt wanted to appoint justices who would not block his administration's New Deal programs.