Justice Charles Evans Hughes

Examples of Justice Charles Evans Hughes in the following topics:

• The Election of 1916

  • Incumbent Democratic President Wilson narrowly defeated Republican Supreme Court Justice Hughes in the 1916 election.
  • The United States presidential election of 1916, which pitted incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson against Republican Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I.
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  • Hughes was the only Supreme Court Justice to be nominated for president by a major political party and was joined on the ticket by former Vice President Charles W.
  • Red denotes states won by Hughes/Fairbanks, Blue denotes those won by Wilson/Marshall.

• Opposition from the Courts

  • The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 was an initiative proposed by President Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S.
  • The central and most controversial provision of the bill would have granted the President power to appoint an additional Justice to the U.S.
  • Parrish by a 5–4 ruling, after Associate Justice Owen Roberts had joined the more liberal members.
  • The ensuing struggle over ideological identity increased the ineffectiveness of the Justice Department.
  • As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would later note, it was because much of the New Deal legislation was so poorly drafted and defended that the court did not uphold it.

• Court Packing

  • As Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes would later note that the court did not uphold much of the New Deal legislation because it was was so poorly drafted and defended.
  • This legislative initiative proposed to add up to six more justices to the U.S.
  • Also in 1937, Willis Van Devanter, justice nominated by Republican Theodore Roosevelt, retired and by the same token FDR could nominate his first Supreme Court justice.
  • By the end of his presidency, Roosevelt  nominated eight Supreme Court justices, more than any other president.
  • In 1938, he became the first Supreme Court justice nominated by FDR.

• Legislative Achievements of the Second New Deal

  • The practical effect of this proposal was that the president would get to appoint six new Justices to the Supreme Court, thus instantly tipping the political balance on the Court dramatically in his favor.
  • Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes played a leading role in defeating the court-packing by rushing these pieces of New Deal legislation through and ensuring that the Court's majority would uphold it.

• Conclusion: The Legacy of WWI

  • The United States presidential election of 1916, which pitted incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson against Republican Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I.

• Conclusion: The Successes and Failures of Progressivism

  • Leading politicians from both parties, most notably Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Evans Hughes, and Robert LaFollette on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan and Woodrow Wilson on the Democratic side, took up the cause of progressive reform.
  • Although significant advancements were made in social justice and reform on a case by case basis, there was little local effort to coordinate reformers on a wide platform of issues.

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • ., Charles Evans Hughes, and Herbert Hoover on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson and Al Smith on the Democratic side .
  • Others stress the continuing importance of the Progressive movement in the South in the 1920s which involved increased democracy, efficient government, corporate regulation, social justice, and governmental public service.

• The Progressive Era

  • ., and Charles Evans Hughes on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, and Al Smith on the Democratic side.