{"id":160994,"date":"2026-08-19T15:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/19\/tafts-timely-legacy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:48:51","slug":"tafts-timely-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/19\/tafts-timely-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Taft\u2019s Timely Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Justice Roberts recently wrote a fawning tribute to William Howard Taft<\/a> that had as much to do with defending his own record than anything else. Roberts noted that Taft actually wrote vanishingly few notable opinions, but one \u2014 that Roberts did not mention \u2014 was United States v. Lanza<\/em>. Writing for a unanimous court in this prohibition case, Taft laid out what key constitutional concept that endures to this day? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hint: This concept is very much in the news with a high profile defendant\u2019s lawyer hoping Taft\u2019s precedent won\u2019t matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post Taft\u2019s Timely Legacy<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Chief Justice Roberts recently wrote a fawning tribute to William Howard Taft<\/a> that had as much to do with defending his own record than anything else. Roberts noted that Taft actually wrote vanishingly few notable opinions, but one \u2014 that Roberts did not mention \u2014 was United States v. Lanza<\/em>. Writing for a unanimous court in this prohibition case, Taft laid out what key constitutional concept that endures to this day? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Hint: This concept is very much in the news with a high profile defendant\u2019s lawyer hoping Taft\u2019s precedent won\u2019t matter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Chief Justice Roberts recently wrote a fawning tribute to William Howard Taft that had as much to do with defending his own record than anything else. Roberts noted that Taft actually wrote vanishingly few notable opinions, but one \u2014 that Roberts did not mention \u2014 was United States v. Lanza. Writing for a unanimous court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Howard-Taft-XkPQ2h.jpg?fit=1040%2C1352&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}