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Justices William O. Douglas and Hugo Black concurred, but they wanted to go much further. "I would put an end to all forms and types of censorship and give full literal meaning to the command of the First Amendment," insisted Douglas. His brethren thought it was enough simply to put the censor on a shorter tether...
Rarely has the Supreme Court of the U.S. known a richer personality than Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. "F.F.," as he was known to his brethren, grated on some of them as a hyperactive pedant: he charmed others as the most rewarding friend of their lives. He was insatiably curious; he knew everyone, read everything. He talked incessantly -warm, wise, witty words about everything under the sun. Dean Acheson said of him: "One needs to see, to hear-particularly to hear his laugh, his general noisiness-to realize what an obstreperous person this man is, to have...
...Government, apply to the states by "incorporation" in the due-process clause of the 14th Amendment. To Frankfurter, due process was a flexible concept to be shaped by trial and error; he would ban only police conduct that "shocks the conscience." As for legislative reapportionment, Frankfurter loudly warned his brethren to shun all such cases and avoid "the political thicket...
Wondering what "our brethren" in Alabama have concluded about the expanding consequences of the Supreme Court's landmark decision against school segregation, Columbia University Law Professor Marvin Frankel read straight through the 1954-64 issues of The Alabama Lawyer, official publication of the Alabama Bar Association...
...Chemistry. Much is said about how important a good grade in "organic" is, and horrible tales are told of grade-grubbing souls who audit lectures the year before they take the course and sabotage labs in the hopes of scrambling up the Almighty Curve over the bodies of fallen brethren...