Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources
- Preface
- List of Cases
- Prologue Mr. Taft Takes Charge
- Part I Constructing the Taft Court: Appointments
- Part II The Holdover Justices
- Part III The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft
- 9 Taft’s Health
- 10 Taft as a Justice
- 11 Myers v. United States
- 12 The Conference of Senior Circuit Court Judges
- 13 Reshaping the Supreme Court
- 14 The Changing Role of Chief Justice
- 15 The Chief Justice as Chancellor
- 16 Lobbying for Judicial Appointments
- 17 Creating a New Supreme Court Building
- Part IV The Taft Court as an Institution
- Part V Social and Economic Legislation
- Part VI The Positive Law of Prohibition
- Part VII Federalism and the American People
- Part VIII Labor, Equal Protection, and Race
- Index
13 - Reshaping the Supreme Court
from Part III - The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources
- Preface
- List of Cases
- Prologue Mr. Taft Takes Charge
- Part I Constructing the Taft Court: Appointments
- Part II The Holdover Justices
- Part III The Incomparable Chief Justiceship of William Howard Taft
- 9 Taft’s Health
- 10 Taft as a Justice
- 11 Myers v. United States
- 12 The Conference of Senior Circuit Court Judges
- 13 Reshaping the Supreme Court
- 14 The Changing Role of Chief Justice
- 15 The Chief Justice as Chancellor
- 16 Lobbying for Judicial Appointments
- 17 Creating a New Supreme Court Building
- Part IV The Taft Court as an Institution
- Part V Social and Economic Legislation
- Part VI The Positive Law of Prohibition
- Part VII Federalism and the American People
- Part VIII Labor, Equal Protection, and Race
- Index
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Act of February 13, 1925discretionary jurisdictiondocket of Supreme Court of the United StatesJudges’ Billjudicial reformJurisdiction of the Supreme Court of the United Statesmandatory jurisdictionSupreme Court of the United StatesUnited States Supreme Court as Ministry of JusticeWilliam Howard Taft
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- The Taft CourtMaking Law for a Divided Nation, 1921–1930, pp. 476 - 501Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023