Supreme Court begins new term with new justice Oct 5, 2009
Supreme Court justices Felix Frankfurter and William Brennan - Washington neighbors and frequent adversaries on the bench - are among four justices being honored on new stamps. Nineteenth-century Justice Joseph Story, whose father took part in the Boston Tea Party, and Justice Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish American on the court, are the others. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
What would Jesus do? (303) Sep 30, 2009
" Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 1952"Fifty men have run America, and thats a high figure. " Joseph Kennedy, father of JFK, in the July 26th, l936 issue of The New York Times."The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. (Boerne Star, TX)
New stamps honor 4 long-serving Supreme Court justices Sep 23, 2009
Justices Felix Frankfurter (clockwise from upper left), William Brennan, Joseph Story, and Louis Brandeis were recognized ... WASHINGTON - Supreme Court justices Felix Frankfurter and William Brennan - Washington neighbors and frequent adversaries on the bench - are among four justices being honored on new stamps. (Boston Globe)
Lawyers try to stop second Ohio execution try Sep 18, 2009
Justice Felix Frankfurter, a swing vote in the court's 1947 decision, also said a different set of facts could have led to a different decision. Those facts could include "a series of abortive attempts at electrocution," he wrote. (MSNBC -- Crime)
Sweden's shame over Israeli 'organ theft' nonstory Aug 27, 2009
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School. His latest book is "The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and Others Who Stand in the Way of Peace." A version of this piece appeared earlier at. (Christian Science Monitor)
Silly, Baseless Lawsuits Aug 22, 2009
As Justice Felix Frankfurter put it, "there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men." Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49, 52 (1949). There has been a lot of talk of the pleading standards for civil suits lately, due in no small part to the political aspersions cast upon a recent Supreme Court decision that served to ratchet up the standard. (Law.com)
The Virtues of Supreme Silence Jul 19, 2009
In 1939, though, Felix Frankfurter declined on the grounds that he had classes to teach at Harvard Law School. After relenting, he warned senators that it would be "improper" and in "bad taste" for a nominee "to express his views on any controversial issues affecting the court." If they wanted to assess his thinking, Frankfurter said, "My attitude and outlook on relevant matters have been fully expressed over a period of years and are easily accessible.". (Townhall.com)
Chambers and Trilling: Parallel Lives Jul 16, 2009
Hiss had been among the elite of the New Deal, a protg of Felix Frankfurter, clerk to Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and State Department official. Chambers told the story in a founding document of conservative anti-communism. (The American Conservative)
The Supreme Court on Trial Jul 7, 2009
Burn's basic critique of judicial review dates back at least 100 years to the work of James Bradley Thayer, who believed that the Supreme Court should strike down only laws that were in "clear error." This idea reached the high bench in the person of FDR appointee Justice Felix Frankfurter. As Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman reminds me, this was the core tenet of conservative legal theory until Judge Robert Bork and Justice Antonin Scalia came up with the more muscular doctrine of originalism... (Slate)
Is Sotomayor a Judicial Activist? New Studies May Shed Some Light Jun 6, 2009
The least activist justices were Felix Frankfurter, Warren Burger, Byron White and Harry Blackmun. The high court's most recent "swing" justices, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy, ranked 14th and 11th, respectively. (Law.com)
Critics Pounce on Sotomayor's Reversal Rate Jun 3, 2009
When legendary appeals judge Learned Hand did not like how the U.S. Supreme Court disposed of one of his cases in 1954, he protested privately to Justice Felix Frankfurter. "I felt ... a sense of professional incapacity," Hand confessed in a letter, according to Gerald Gunther's 2004 biography of Hand. (Law.com)
Not all "Compelling Personal Stories" are Equal May 28, 2009
Is she arguing that Thurgood Marshall, Felix Frankfurter and Sandra Day O'Connor faced lower hurdles than Sotomayor. And how about Clarence Thomas, a descendant of slaves who grew up in abject poverty in the South without a father. (Human Events Online)
If Picked, Granholm Would Be 7th Foreign-Born Justice May 22, 2009
The others were: James Wilson (born in Scotland in 1742); James Iredell (1751, England); William Paterson (1745, Ireland); David Brewer (1837, Asia Minor, now Turkey -- son of an American missionary); George Sutherland (1862, England); and Felix Frankfurter (1882, Austria. . (Law.com)
Written law, not bias, must guide new justice May 14, 2009
The American people expect greatness in our highest jurists the greatness personified by John Marshall and Felix Frankfurter and anticipated from John Roberts. The Senate has a duty to determine whether the president s nominee meets these expectations. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Dershowitz: Iran 'Immediate' Threat to Israel, U.S. May 12, 2009
Dershowitz, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, also states in his Post piece. Israel has the right to consider the Iranian threat as its first priority, for it will prove far easier to make peace with the Palestinians if the Jewish state does not have to be concerned about the threat of a nuclear attack or dirty bomb. (Newsmax)
In replacing Souter, Obama should look beyond courthouse May 12, 2009
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who appointed eight justices, pointedly chose a mix of electoral politicians (Hugo Black, Jimmy Byrnes, Frank Murphy), New Deal administrators (Stanley Reed, Robert Jackson, William O. Douglas), and legal minds (Felix Frankfurter, Wiley Rutledge). Only Rutledge was an appeals court judge before joining the high court. (Boston Globe)
McConnell Says Supreme Court Justice Should Apply Laws, Not Make Them May 10, 2009
Or as Justice Felix Frankfurter would put it one and a half centuries later, The highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one s personal pulls and one s private views to the law. Yet, some politicians and jurists who hold the contrary view are very open about it. (Human Events Online)
Another View: The best nominee? Surprise us May 9, 2009
Neither, for that matter, had justices Robert H. Jackson or Felix Frankfurter, who weren't exactly judicial slouches. Obama knows all this well, which is why he should have the courage to reach beyond the narrow strictures of the recent past and look to the private bar, the statehouses, state courts and, perhaps, legal academia for the next nominee. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Letter from America Feb 28, 2009
In a memorable passage from his majority opinion in 1944, Justice Felix Frankfurter (who was Jewish and hardly enamored of Nazis) wrote. "One of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures - and that means not only informed and responsible criticism but the freedom to speak foolishly and without moderation." It is an American right, Frankfurter went on, to express "silly or even sinister-sounding views.". (International Herald Tribune)
In 1800s, a rights icon on the bench Feb 17, 2009
Felix Frankfurter called Harlan's opinions eccentric. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who had pithy putdowns for everyone from Abraham Lincoln to Franklin Roosevelt, called Harlan "the last of the tobacco-spitting judges.". (Boston Globe)
Instead of stimulus, do nothing - seriously Feb 9, 2009
As the older, more conservative justices retired, the president replaced them with ardent New Dealers such as Hugo Black, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and William O. Douglas. The newly constituted court proceeded between 1937 and 1941 to overturn its anti-New Deal rulings, abandoning its traditional, narrow view of interstate commerce and giving the federal government carte blanche to spend, tax, and regulate virtually without limit. (Christian Science Monitor)
