Hughes Court
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February 24, 1930 – June 30, 1941 (11 years, 126 days) |
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Old Senate Chamber (1930–35) Supreme Court Building (1935–41) Washington, D.C. |
| No. of positions | 9 |
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The Hughes Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1930 to 1941, when Charles Evans Hughes served as Chief Justice of the United States. Hughes succeeded William Howard Taft as Chief Justice after the latter's retirement, and Hughes served as Chief Justice until his retirement, at which point Harlan Stone was nominated and confirmed as Hughes's replacement. The Supreme Court moved from its former quarters at the United States Capitol to the newly constructed Supreme Court Building during Hughes's chief-justiceship.
Presiding over the country during the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Court, dominated through the 1937 term by four conservative justices, known as the "Four Horsemen" ( Pierce Butler, James Clark McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Willis Van Devanter), struck down many of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies. Roosevelt's frustration with the Court led to his so-called "court-packing scheme", a 1937 proposal—defeated in Congress—to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court in order to affect its ideological position.
The Hughes Court began in 1930, when Hughes was confirmed to replace William Howard Taft as Chief Justice. As president, Taft had appointed Hughes to the position of Associate Justice in 1910, and Hughes had remained on the Court until his resignation in 1916 to run for president.
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