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William Howard Taft genially served as the tenth Chief Justice of the United States. 1 His career was of breathtaking variety.Younger even than current Solicitor General Paul Clement, the buoyant Solicitor General Taft delivered "speech" after "speech" in the Supreme Court in the late nineteenth century.Little did he suspect, one might safely surmise, that one day-after an intervening tour of duty as President of the United States-he would occupy the center chair itself and listen to his successors (many times removed) delivering their "speeches" to the Court in the old English style.In those halcyon, or at least less hurried, days, lawyers were allowed abundant time to present their case, educate the Justices, and perhaps even persuade the Court by the force of oral advocacy.2 Those were also the days when the Court was duty-bound to decide the lion's share of the cases that came before it.3 The
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