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SUPREME COURT]. Large group photograph signed by CHARLES EVANS HUGHES ("Charles Evans Hughes"), as Chief Justice, LOUIS BRANDEIS ("Louis D. Brandeis") and by each of the other seven Justices, Washington, D. C., 1936. 9¾ x 11 7/8 in., printed captions on lower margin of mount , "Supreme Court of the United States 1936." Signed by all on the lower margin, with their printed names beneath the signatures.
SUPREME COURT]. Large group photograph signed by CHARLES EVANS HUGHES ("Charles Evans Hughes"), as Chief Justice, LOUIS BRANDEIS ("Louis D. Brandeis") and by each of the other seven Justices, Washington, D. C., 1936. 9¾ x 11 7/8 in., printed captions on lower margin of mount , "Supreme Court of the United States 1936." Signed by all on the lower margin, with their printed names beneath the signatures. "THE NINE OLD MEN". The targets of FDR's unsuccessful court-packing scheme sit for a formal portrait, CHIEF JUSTICE CHARLES EVANS HUGHES seated at center, flanked by BRANDEIS, WILLIS VAN DEVANTER, J. C. MCREYNOLDS, AND GEORGE SUTHERLAND Behind them stand OWEN J. ROBERTS, PIERCE BUTLER, HARLAN FISK STONE, and BENJAMIN CARDOZO. The Court's rejection of several New Deal measures provoked Roosevelt into changing the composition of the high court, expanding its members to insure a friendly majority. Congress balked. But the deaths of Van Devanter, Pierce, Sutherland and Cardozo over the next two years allowed FDR to restock the Court the old-fashioned way. Hughes's retirement in 1941 allowed a solid liberal majority to take hold on the Court, and continue for a generation.