In his first term, several of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal reforms were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court as an overreach of federal powers. What was the response of President Roosevelt to these Court rulings?
A) The Roosevelt administration's New Deal reforms were implemented anyway and the Supreme Court failed to enforce its ruling.
B) President Roosevelt devised a "court-packing plan" that would increase the number of justices and allow him to appoint them.
C) The Roosevelt administration ceased to support the New Deal policies.
D) The Roosevelt administration appealed the ruling to the international courts.
E) The Roosevelt administration took the cases into each of the state supreme courts.
B
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