The Supreme Court's reaction to President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to "pack" the Court by increasing the number of justices has been nicknamed in history as

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The term "the switch in time that saved nine" refers to the sudden change in voting patterns of one justice on the Court, who began siding with Roosevelt's policies following his announcement to increase the number of justices. This change in the Court's ideology ultimately saved Roosevelt's plan from being rejected, and is named after the idiom "a stitch in time saves nine."

The Supreme Court's Reaction to President Franklin Roosevelt's Plan to "Pack