When was the Supreme Court first called the “Nine Old Men”?

July 6, 2020March 1, 2012 by Pamela Landy

Supreme Court received the disparaging epithet “Nine Old Men” when they opposed President Franklin Roosevelt’s reforms during the Great Depression.

The Nine Old Men was the title of a 1936 book on the Supreme Court by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen.

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