3. appoint as many as six additional Supreme Court justices.
The Judicial Reform Bill (1937) was a legislative plan that would have allowed Roosevelt to add more justices to the Supreme Court, by appointing 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.
