Title
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
8-2017
Department 1
Political Science
Abstract
William Howard Taft was both our twenty-seventh president and the tenth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court -- the only person to have ever held both high positions in our country. He once famously commented that "presidents may come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever" (Pringle 1998). His remark reminds us that presidents serve only four-year terms (and are now limited to two of them), but justices of the Supreme court are appointed for life and leave a legacy of precedent-setting cases after departing the High Court. Of course, presidents also leave a legacy of important decisions, not the least of which being their appointment of federal judges. [excerpt]
Copyright Note
This is the publisher's version of the work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College's institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
ISBN/ISSN
9780199579891
Version
Version of Record
Recommended Citation
Yates, Jeffrey L. and Scott Boddery. "Courts and Executives." In The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior, Lee Epstein and Stephanie Lindquist, eds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. pp. 399-415.
Required Publisher's Statement
Chapter 21 of The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior, edited by Lee Epstein and Stefanie A. Lindquist.