Sublime

After his landslide, Jefferson, in control of two branches of government, had turned his attention to the lone branch still dominated by the other party—the judiciary—moving, in the impeachment of Samuel Chase, to curb its independence. Now Roosevelt, too, moved against the judiciary’s independence. The Supreme Court had declared crucial New Deal

Eisenhower’s appointment of Earl Warren to be chief justice of the United States, like John Adams’s appointment of John Marshall, was one of the major events of his presidency.