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The "'''Three Musketeers'''" was the nickname given to three liberal members during the 1932–37 terms of the [[United States Supreme Court]], who generally supported the [[New Deal]] agenda of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]]. They were [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Justices]] [[Louis Brandeis]], [[Benjamin N. Cardozo]], and [[Harlan Fiske Stone]].<ref>White, at 81.</ref> They were opposed by the [[Four Horsemen (Supreme Court)|Four Horsemen]], consisting of Justices [[James Clark McReynolds]], [[George Sutherland]], [[Willis Van Devanter]], and [[Pierce Butler (justice)|Pierce Butler]]. [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[Charles Evans Hughes]] and Justice [[Owen J. Roberts]] controlled the balance. Charles Evans Hughes often
During the 1935 term, the Four Horsemen would often ride (in a car) together to and from
The Three Musketeers were successful in many cases. They often
==References==
===Sources===
* {{cite book|last=White |first=G. Edward |title=The Constitution and the New Deal |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionnewd00whit |url-access=limited |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |date=2000 |location=Cambridge, MA |pages=[https://archive.org/details/constitutionnewd00whit/page/n396 385] |isbn=978-0-674-00831-1}}
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