What was known as the "court-packing" plan?
A) the decision in the early nineteenth century that all federal courts should be guarded by members of the armed forces
B) the attempt by the Republican-dominated Senate of the 1990s to confirm as many conservative judges as possible
C) the attempt by President Franklin Roosevelt to add sympathetic justices to the Supreme Court in order to get New Deal laws upheld as constitutional
D) the desire in Congress during the 1890s to expand the number of federal courts to ease the workload of the Supreme Court
E) the attempt by the Democratic-dominated Senate of the 1980s to confirm as many liberal judges as possible
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