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Today in Supreme Court History: July 11, 1921
7/11/1921: Chief Justice William Howard Taft takes oath.

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Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are required to take two oaths [judicial and constitutional] before they may execute the duties of their appointed office.
William H. Taft – Took both oaths before A. A. Hoehling, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on July 11, 1921. On October 3, 1921, he ceremonially took the Judicial Oath again, this time in open court before senior Associate Justice Joseph McKenna.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/oath/oathsofthechiefjustices.aspx
The Taft home is a National Historic Site in Cincinnati, Ohio
https://www.nps.gov/wiho/index.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft_National_Historic_Site
President-elect Warren Harding and former President William Howard Taft met at Harding's home in Marion, Ohio, on Christmas Day 1920. Taft had been the most recent Republican president (and, at the time, the only living former President of either party), and Harding wanted to get his thoughts about possible appointments in his forthcoming administration. At the end of the hour-long conversation, Harding asked Taft if he would be interested in a Supreme Court appointment, should one become available. Taft had not been expecting the question, and gave a stumbling answer he felt obliged to clarify in a follow-up letter to Harding
So, Taft would only be interested in the position of Chief Justice, and, as chance would have it, Chief Justice Edward Douglass White would die two months into the Harding administration, and Harding would appoint Taft to succeed him.
https://supremecourthistory.org/scotus-scoops/taft-wanting-to-be-chief-not-associate-justice/
Kind of refreshing to know politics has always been scummy.
"Off the Record on Miranda"
Interesting. Orin Kerr helped with the footnotes. I found it via a library database. Couldn't find free access to the article online yet.
https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/2025/07/off-the-record-on-miranda.html