Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Defending the old constitutional regime: the Four Horsemen reject government as a relief society

The adage that the Supreme Court follows the election returns certainly did not apply to the Four Horsemen – Willis Van Devanter, George Sutherland, James McReynolds and Pierce Butler. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had earned landslide victories in the 1932 and 1936 presidential elections, but that was not discernible in the behavior of the four conservative justices who were in control of the S...

 
 
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