Of course, it helped that Taft hadn’t wanted to be president in the first place. He wanted to be the chief justice. Taft’s father, Alphonso, was America’s attorney general, and he instilled ...

With a gentle swishing of black robes and the slow-shuffling steps of wise old men, the Supreme Court of the U. S., august at Washington, convened for another autumn session in its semicircular ...

“Mrs. Justice Holmes died on Tuesday night,” the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, reported on May 5, 1929. Mr. Justice Holmes—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.—had relied on ...

But consider: Cincinnati-born William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and the 10th chief justice, the only person to hold both positions. Yet he is more likely to be ...

Interesting that Taft was the one that comes under ... Humphrey’s Executor itself, if you read Justice Sutherland’s opinion, spends a lot of time talking about how what the FTC does is not purely ...

S. seated augustly behind their long desk-like bench. You immediately identify Chief Justice Taft, ponderous in the centre. The small semicircular chamber is dimly lighted. Faces, features ...