Why did Congress balk at Roosevelt's proposal to expand the number of Supreme Court justices?
A) The number of Supreme Court justices was constitutionally fixed.
B) The additional salaries of these high-level lawyers would have strained the budget even more.
C) Since the Civil War, that number of justices had settled and taken on an aura of inviolability.
D) They feared that with more justices, the Supreme Court was less likely to agree to the verdict in its cases.
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