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Not quite two years later, in response to the Court's invalidations of other portions of his program, President Roosevelt introduced a plan to increase the number of justices on the Court. The explanation he offered involved his concerns respecting the ages of the justices and the burdens of their respective offices. Chief Justice Hughes, however, proved to be a shrewd, if somewhat restrained, opponent of the proposal. At Sen. Burton K. Wheeler's suggestion, the chief justice composed and released a letter that refuted many of the reasons the president had offered in support of his plan. In an unprecedented step, Hughes, in the company of two other justices, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain the Court's position and to emphasize the constitutional significance of its independence. The presence of additional members of the Court, he insisted, would only create delay and foster impression that...
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