Taft Administration - Taft and the Judiciary
Taft and the Judiciary
William Howard Taft appointed six Supreme Court justices. The six included Horace H. Lurton, Charles Evans Hughes, Edward D. White, Willis Van Devanter, Joseph R. Lamar, and Mahlon Pitney. Taft especially admired Lurton saying that the Lurton appointment was one of the great pleasures of his administration.
The most significant action taken by the Supreme Court during the Taft administration was the establishment of the so-called "Rule of Reason." In the 1911 Standard Oil Company v. United States and United States v. American Tobacco Company cases the Court ruled that the prohibition of all combinations in restraint of trade set forth in the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 really meant only unreasonable combinations in restraint of trade. This implied that there were good trusts and there were bad trusts.
In a case significantly affecting the cause of conservation, the Court in...
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