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It soon became apparent that the president would have to promote his plan more actively. He complained to audiences everywhere that the courts had placed the government's ability to act in matters involving the nation's economic and social welfare in jeopardy. The Schechter decision, among others issued in May 1935, had been followed by a flood of requests for injunctions in the lower federal courts. In the time since, federal judges had issued more than sixteen hundred restraining orders preventing governmental officials from carrying out much of the New Deal legislation. The president had been disturbed by the Court's rejection of his program, and he could not understand why his plan was not getting more public support. The only practical recourse available to him was, as he saw it, a full reorganization of the judicial system. There was little question that the president considered...
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