6: “I LOVE JUDGES AND I LOVE COURTS”
1. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed., Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, vol. 2 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930), 439.
2. Lawrence F. Abbott, ed., Taft and Roosevelt: The Intimate Letters of Archie Butt, Military Aide, vol. 1 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930), 310.
3. Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, vol. 2 (Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1986), 955.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid., 958.
6. Jonathan Lurie, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 197.
7. Robert Post, “Mr. Taft Becomes Chief Justice,” University of Cincinnati Law Review 76 (2008): 761, 768–70.
8. Ibid., 777.
9. “Supreme Court Nominations: present–1789,” U.S. Senate, https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/nominations/Nominations.htm [https://perma.cc/RF45-6VB6].
10. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 960.
11. Ibid., 965–66.
12. Ibid., 962.
13. Alpheus Thomas Mason, William Howard Taft: Chief Justice (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965), 231.
14. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 972.
15. Ibid., 960.
16. Francis Graham Lee, “Commentary,” in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 8, ed. Francis Graham Lee (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004), xvii.
17. Robert Post, “The Supreme Court Opinion as Institutional Practice: Dissent, Legal Scholarship, and Decisionmaking in the Taft Court,” Minnesota Law Review 85 (2001): 1267, 1271.
18. Post, “Mr. Taft Becomes Chief Justice,” 779–80.
19. Paolo E. Coletta, The Presidency of William Howard Taft (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1973), 130.
20. Post, “Mr. Taft Becomes Chief Justice,” 779.
21. Lee, “Commentary,” in The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 8, xviii–xix.
22. “Landmark Legislation: Conference of Senior Circuit Judges,” Stat. 42 (Sept. 14, 1922): 837, https://www.fjc.gov/history/legislation/landmark-judicial-legislation-text-document-12 [https://perma.cc/C2WE-3Q8Z].
23. Robert Post, “Judicial Management and Judicial Disinterest: The Achievements and Perils of Chief Justice William Howard Taft,” Journal of Supreme Court History (1998): 54.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., 56.
26. Ibid.
27. Mason, Taft: Chief Justice, 56.
28. Ibid., 51.
29. Post, “The Supreme Court Opinion as Institutional Practice,” 1384, app. A.
30. Ibid., 1278.
31. “Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ),” Supreme Court of the United States, https://www.supremecourt.gov/faq.aspx [https://perma.cc/6ZSK-6F28].
32. Post, “The Supreme Court Opinion as Institutional Practice,” 1272–73.
33. Melvin I. Urofsky, Louis D. Brandeis: A Life (New York: Pantheon Books, 2009), 573.
34. Melvin I. Urofsky, The Brandeis-Frankfurter Conversations, Supreme Court Review 1985 (1985): 299, 313 (cited by Post, “Mr. Taft Becomes Chief Justice,” 781).
35. Mason, Taft: Chief Justice, 199.
36. Robert Post, “Chief Justice William Howard Taft and the Concept of Federalism,” Constitutional Commentary 9 (1992): 199, 202.
37. Abbott, Letters of Archie Butt, vol. 1, 293–94.
38. M. Todd Henderson, “From Seriatim to Consensus and Back Again: A Theory of Dissent,” Supreme Court Review 2007 (2007): 283, 325.
39. Post, “The Supreme Court Opinion as Institutional Practice,” 1283.
40. Henderson, “A Theory of Dissent,” 323.
41. Lee Epstein, William M. Landes, and Richard A. Posner, “Are Even Unanimous Decisions in the United States Supreme Court Ideological?,” Northwestern University Law Review 106, no. 2 (2012): 699, 701.
42. Post, “Mr. Taft Becomes Chief Justice,” 787.
43. Post, “The Supreme Court Opinion as Institutional Practice,” 1311.
44. Mason, Taft: Chief Justice, 223.
45. Post, “The Supreme Court Opinion as Institutional Practice,” 1311.
46. Ibid., 1344.
47. Ibid., 1343, n. 230.
48. Ibid., 1318–25.
49. Ibid., 1347.
50. Ibid., 1268.
51. Ibid., 1271.
52. Michael E. Parrish, The Hughes Court: Justices, Rulings, and Legacy (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002), 23.
53. Lee, The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 8, 30.
54. Parrish, The Hughes Court, 23.
55. 259 U.S. 20 (1922) (Clarke, J., dissenting).
56. Alexander Bickel, The Unpublished Opinions of Mr. Justice Brandeis: The Supreme Court at Work (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1957), 19.
57. Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co., 259 U.S. at 39 (citing Hammer v. Dagenhart, 247 U.S. 251 [1918]).
58. Ibid., 38.
59. Adkins v. Children’s Hospital, 261 U.S. 525 (1923) (Taft, C.J., dissenting) (disapproving of the Court’s upholding of Lochner and holding of a congressional act instituting minimum wage legislation for women invalid).
60. Ibid., 562 (Taft, C.J., dissenting).
61. Robert Post, “Federalism, Positive Law, and the Emergence of the American Administrative State: Prohibition in the Taft Court Era,” William & Mary Law Review 48, no. 1 (2006): 87–88 (citing Letter from William Howard Taft to Allen B. Lincoln [Sept. 2, 1918]).
62. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 1077.
63. William Howard Taft, The Citizen’s Duty Under Prohibition (Boston: Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League, 1919), 1.
64. 267 U.S. 132.
65. 272 U.S. 52.
66. Urofsky, Brandeis: A Life, 588.
67. Myers, 272 U.S. at 117.
68. Ibid., 134.
69. Ibid., 293 (Brandeis, J., dissenting).
70. 295 U.S. 602.
71. Humphrey’s Executor, 295 U.S. at 629.
72. Christopher S. Yoo, Steven G. Calabresi, and Laurence D. Nee, “The Unitary Executive During the Third Half-Century, 1889–1945,” Faculty Scholarship Paper No. 785 (2005): 43, http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/785.
73. Lee, The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, vol. 8, 258.
74. Yoo, Calabresi, and Nee, “The Unitary Executive,” 42.
75. Taft, “Inaugural Address,” 54.
76. Gong Lum v. Rice, 275 U.S. 78, 87 (1927).
77. John G. Sotos, MD, “Taft and Pickwick: Sleep Apnea in the White House,” CHEST 124, no. 3 (2003): 1137.
78. Pringle, Taft, vol. 2, 1077.
79. Ibid., 1074.
80. Ibid.
81. Ibid., 1078.
82. Ibid., 1079.
83. Visit by author to U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., Apr. 19, 2017.
84. Mason, Taft: Chief Justice, 136–37.