Supreme Court Justices Are Absolutely Not Above Politics

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

Which Supreme Court justice unsuccessfully ran for president?

Hint: While Chief Justice William Howard Taft is famously the only person to serve as both President of the United States and on the Supreme Court, another person tried to do both. They resigned from the Court to launch their ultimately unsuccessful campaign, and later rejoined SCOTUS as the Chief Justice.

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