Original sentence: (text and audio).Although it did lead to some anti-Roosevelt sentiment throughout the nation, the plan actually achieved its goal despite its defeat.Overview of the Plan.Presented as a bill to relieve the workload on elderly judges, the bill would have allowed Roosevelt to appoint one judge for each sitting judge over age 70 with at least ten years of experience.Roosevelt promoted the bill in his 9th Fireside Chat, broadcast over national radio on March 9, 1937.Roosevelt was prompted to create a plan to modify the Supreme Court after the Court repeatedly invalidated elements of his New Deal, including the Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v.The Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937 (called the Court-packing Bill by its opponents) was a proposal in 1937 by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for power to appoint an extra Supreme Court Justice for every sitting Justice over the age of 70.This was proposed in response to the Supreme Court overturning several of his New Deal measures that were designed to help the United States recover from the Great Depression
Edited sentence: Although it did lead to some anti-Roosevelt sentiment throughout the nation, the court-packing plan actually achieved its goal despite its defeat.Disguised as a bill to relieve the workload on elderly judges, the bill would have allowed Roosevelt to appoint one judge for each sitting judge over age 70 with at least ten years of experience.Roosevelt was prompted to create a plan to control the Supreme Court after the Court repeatedly invalidated elements of his New Deal, including the Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v.The Court-packing Bill was proposal in 1937 by United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for power to appoint an extra Supreme Court Justice for every sitting Justice over the age of 70.The bill was known officially at the time as the Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937.This was an indirect way for the president to attack the Supreme Court for overturning several of his New Deal measures that were designed to help the United States recover from the Great Depression.[Overview of Court-packing Plan