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In the 1930s, four Supreme Court Justices had the ability to strike down President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “New Deal.” As “Smithsonian Magazine” reports, “They were referred to in the press as “the Four Horsemen,” after the allegorical figures of the Apocalypse associated with death and destruction. In the spring of 1935, a fifth justice, Hoover-appointee Owen Roberts — at 60 the youngest man on the Supreme Court — began casting his swing vote with them to create a conservative majority.”
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