The Four Horsemen: A Conservative Supreme Court Bloc with outsized influence that resonates in our time

The Four Horsemen of Supreme Court— not Biblical—lore represented one of the most important blocs of Justices in the history of our constitutional tradition. Their intractable opposition to New Deal legislation and reforms in the 1930s, in favor of an old-style conservatism that embraced laissez-faire economics and the view that the Constitution was an unchanging document in a universe governed…