About 76 years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt hatched a plan for bending to his will a recalcitrant and obstructive (by his lights) U.S. Supreme Court. The Court at the time consisted of seven Republican appointees and two Democratic ones.

As the Senate Committee on the Judiciary explains what happened:

To counter the impact of the Court's decisions

The training of a nation to fit itself successfully to fulfill the duties of self-government is a matter, not of a decade or two, but of generations.

Edmund Morris, Colonel Roosevelt 38 (2010) (quoting from a speech by the former President at Cairo University on March 9, 1910).