Government by Judiciary: The Four Horsemen, in the Saddle, exert influence and thwart New Deal Programs

  • Government by Judiciary: The Four Horsemen, in the Saddle, exert influence and thwart New Deal Programs
    Government by Judiciary: The Four Horsemen, in the Saddle, exert influence and thwart New Deal Programs
The remarkable influence of the Four Horsemen, as demonstrated by their success in thwarting on constitutional grounds President Franklin D.Roosevelt’s New Deal plans to resuscitate an economy brought to its knees by the Great Depression, reminds us of the capacity, for better or worse, of the Supreme Court to rewrite Alexander Hamilton’s modest description of the judiciary as the “least…

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