On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt publicized his new plan to expand the Supreme Court in what he said, was a move to make a more effective and organized justice system at the federal level. This controversial proposal became known as court packing as those who had opposed Roosevelt immediately believed that the extension of the Supreme Court was a ruse to fill the panel with a majority of supporters for his ideas. Court packing was FDR's plan to reduce the effects of the Supreme Court justices who had hostile opinions of his New Deal programs. Because the Supreme Court had struck down several key pieces of the New Deal legislation, Roosevelt felt by expanding the amount of justices on the Supreme Court level with his supporters,
