President Franklin Roosevelt?s appointees to the Supreme Court
A) liberalized the Court.
B) routinely ruled his New Deal legislation unconstitutional.
C) made the Court more conservative.
D) proved to have no effect upon the decisions of the Court.
E) proved to be great disappointments to him on issue after issue.
Answer: A) liberalized the Court.
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