In February 1937 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that parts of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s economic recovery plan—the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the National Recovery Administration—were unconstitutional. In response, Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of justices from nine to fifteen, which would have allowed him to appoint the new justices. Herblock’s humorous perspective on waxing and waning numbers of Supreme Court justices clarifies how radically altered the court would have been if the legislation had passed.