Proposal of the Judicial Reform Bill

After his re-election in 1936, President FDR proposed the Judicial Reform Bill which he said would:

• Modernize SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) by appointing one new justice for every justice who reached the age of 70 while on the bench
• New judges would be more progressive and understand current issues instead of the "archaic" decisions by life long appointed justices
• Justices were essentially kings appointed to the bench (Ironically, so was the continuously re-elected FDR

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