Julian Randolph, a disreputable lawyer, gains an ad interim appointment to the Supreme bench as a reward for fixing a jury that acquits the brother of the political boss of a charge of murder. He was promised the nomination for the full term at the next election, but gains it only through threat of exposure of a bigamous marriage contracted by the boss. Then comes love for a noble woman and the question whether he shall take defeat with honor or gain seeming honor at the cost of his manhood. It is a momentous problem, but he makes a decision that proves him worthy of the robes of honor.

Henry B. Walthall
as Julian Randolph

Mary Charleson
as Roxana Frisbee

Lois Wilson
as Laura Nelson

Noah Beery
as 'Boss' Nordhoff

Eugene Pallette
as Clifford Nordhoff

Joseph J. Dowling
as Bruce Nelson

Fred Montague
as Million Mulligan

Roy Laidlaw
as Robert Partland

Guy Newhard
as Carrots