The adage that the Supreme Court follows the election returns certainly did not apply to the Four Horsemen — Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland, James McReynolds and Pierce Butler. President
The nine members of the U. S. Supreme Court were officially dismayed and privately rather flattered'. For six weeks they had held an unparalleled place…
The odds were against Willis Van Devanter ever winning an appointment to the Supreme Court. Widespread talk that he suffered from “pen paralysis,” an affliction that subverted his production, made