{"id":163837,"date":"2026-09-28T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/28\/his-supreme-court-confirmation-was-so-bitter-it-invented-the-modern-hearing\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:25:20","slug":"his-supreme-court-confirmation-was-so-bitter-it-invented-the-modern-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/28\/his-supreme-court-confirmation-was-so-bitter-it-invented-the-modern-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"His Supreme Court Confirmation Was So Bitter It Invented The Modern Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span>Ed. Note:<\/span> Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The nomination of which Supreme Court justice reportedly received gasps from the Senate when his name was submitted by President Woodrow Wilson? The fight that followed dragged on four months, the longest confirmation battle in the Court\u2019s history to that point, and produced the first public Senate hearings ever held on a Supreme Court nominee. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The hearings boasted 47 witnesses and some 1,500 pages of testimony. The opposition to the nomination was a who\u2019s-who of the establishment: former president William Howard Taft, who branded the nomination \u201can evil and a disgrace,\u201d along with Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, J.P. Morgan Jr., and six former presidents of the American Bar Association. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/his-supreme-court-confirmation-was-so-bitter-it-invented-the-modern-hearing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">His Supreme Court Confirmation Was So Bitter It Invented The Modern Hearing<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/07\/Senate-side-of-the-capitol-300x156.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><em>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/trivia-question-of-the-day\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trivia Question of the Day!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The nomination of which Supreme Court justice reportedly received gasps from the Senate when his name was submitted by President Woodrow Wilson? The fight that followed dragged on four months, the longest confirmation battle in the Court\u2019s history to that point, and produced the first public Senate hearings ever held on a Supreme Court nominee. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hint: The hearings boasted 47 witnesses and some 1,500 pages of testimony. The opposition to the nomination was a who\u2019s-who of the establishment: former president William Howard Taft, who branded the nomination \u201can evil and a disgrace,\u201d along with Elihu Root, Henry Cabot Lodge, Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, J.P. Morgan Jr., and six former presidents of the American Bar Association. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/his-supreme-court-confirmation-was-so-bitter-it-invented-the-modern-hearing\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/09\/his-supreme-court-confirmation-was-so-bitter-it-invented-the-modern-hearing\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day! The nomination of which Supreme Court justice reportedly received gasps from the Senate when his name was submitted by President Woodrow Wilson? The fight that followed dragged on four months, the longest confirmation battle in the Court\u2019s history to that point, and produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":163838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163837","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=163837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}