Today in Supreme Court History: January 3, 1911

1/3/1911: Justice Willis Van Devanter takes oath.

Justice Willis Van Devanter

Comments

[Enrique]

Justice who?

[James Pollock]

Clearly, some dates have better anecdotes than others. Sometimes he has to leave the Court entirely, and talk about other federal offices, and sometimes even state offices. At least this time he found an actual highlight of the Supreme Court that involved someone who was on the Supreme Court.

[Dan Schiavetta]

One of the Four Horsemen.

Though Van Devanter
At most, a canter.

[James Pollock]

"One of the Four Horsemen."

War, Famine, Pestilence and Van Devanter?

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Van Devanter, another rural Republican bigot on the wrong side of history whose obsolete preferences have been marginalized by better Americans.

[Cal Cetín]

Like the present system of letting the Supreme Court have discretionary review of most cases?

"Justice Willis Van Devanter headed the committee that referred the draft to the full Court before submitting it to Congress in late 1921....

"...Taft deferred to the advice of friends in Congress and allowed Van Devanter to represent the Court in committee hearings in the Senate and House of Representatives."

https://www.fjc.gov/history/legislation/landmark-legislation-judges-bill-0

When did that become obsolete?