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 phrase "the switch in time that saved nine" refers to the Supreme Court's decision in the case of West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish in 1937. Justice Owen Roberts, who had previously sided with the conservative justices in striking down several of Roosevelt's New Deal policies, switched his vote and sided with the liberal justices in upholding a minimum wage law. This switch was widely seen as an attempt to avoid Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of justices, which would have given him the ability to appoint justices who were more sympathetic to his policies. The phrase "saved nine" refers to the fact that there were nine justices on the Supreme Court at the time.

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