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
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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