Liberals put the squeeze to Justice Roberts

In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt Loading... , progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Loading... , “I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that. ” TR was as mistaken about Holmes’s spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts Loading... ’s. Read more

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In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism’s first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, “I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that. ” TR was as mistaken about Holmes’s spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts’s.

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