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The "Three Musketeers" was the nickname given to three liberal members during the 1932–37 terms of the United States Supreme Court, who generally supported the New Deal agenda of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They were Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and Harlan Fiske Stone.
The "Three Musketeers" was the nickname given to three liberal members during the 1932–37 terms of the United States Supreme Court, who generally supported the New Deal agenda of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They were Justices Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, and Harlan Fiske Stone.
The "Four Horsemen" (in allusion to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) was the nickname given by the press to four conservative members of the United States Supreme Court during the 1932–1937 terms, who opposed the New Deal agenda of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Joining Justices Benjamin Cardozo and Harlan Fiske Stone, Brandeis was one of the liberal "Three Musketeers" on the Court. They opposed a conservative bloc known as the "Four Horsemen." Like the other Musketeers, Brandeis generally voted in favor of New Deal legislation and similar economic regulations.
Jun 22, 2022 · The Three Musketeers consisted of Justices Louis Brandeis, Harlan Fiske Stone, and Benjamin Cardozo. This was also a bipartisan group with Brandeis and Cardozo Democrats, while Republican Stone had been Calvin Coolidge’s Attorney General.
- Mike Holme
Jul 19, 2018 · Then in June 1937, Justice Willis Van Devanter retired. Van Devanter, who had served on the highest court since 1911, had been one of what the press dubbed the “Four Horsemen” of anti-New Deal justices. (The three liberal justices were known as the Three Musketeers.
Jul 2, 2008 · For McCain, the Three Musketeers are Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer, with David Souter playing the role of d’Artagnan — the fourth Musketeer. The difference (and advantage) for McCain is age.
