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Jan 22, 2024 · Most notoriously, from the vantage of Progressives, the Court had, in 1918, declared an act of Congress that regulated child labor unconstitutional. Taft, seated in 1921, navigated by these...
- Jill Lepore
Senate progressives continued their efforts to curb the courts into the 1920s and even after Taft left the Court in 1930, winning victories with anti-injunction laws and defeating or delaying other elements of Taft’s plans.
Jan 23, 2024 · In an effort to restore antebellum values, the Taft Court revived the doctrine of Lochner v. New York, which put the burden of justifying social and economic regulation squarely on the government. The Court’s doctrinal innovations were so severe that they would lead directly to the crisis of the New Deal during the next decade.
Mar 16, 2024 · Traditionalist conservative Justices advocating natural rights notions had no representation on the Taft Court after 1911. Law review commentary in the 1920s that advocated limits on government...
May 5, 2013 · Though Wilson’s first Court appointment, James McReynolds, had disappointed progressives, “the other two represent a new school of constitutional construction, which if allowed to prevail will greatly impair our fundamental law.”
The Taft Court began in 1921 when President Warren Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft to replace Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, who Taft himself had made Chief Justice in 1910.
As the Court emasculated progressive economic legislation, curbed freedom of speech, and limited efforts at unionization, opposi tion developed and a reform coalition emerged to deal with what the
