Word: cardozos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with it to help clear a crowded calendar. He remained with that court until 1932, sitting after 1927 as its chief judge. A lifelong bachelor, he lived with his sister Ellen Ida until her death in 1929, gave his whole life to his profession. Diminutive, white-mopped Justice Cardozo is a scholar, an outstanding liberal, a humanitarian and an unusually modest man. The clarity and logic of his opinions make them among the most quoted...
...President Hoover, having had difficulty in finding a successor to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, named Judge Cardozo to the Supreme Court at the suggestion of Senators Borah and Wagner...
Chief Justice Hughes dislikes dissenting opinions and does his best to bring his Associates into line with the majority. On the New York Court of Appeals Justice Cardozo had a record for the small number of dissenting opinions which his Court issued. After the Supreme Court has heard cases, the Justices discuss them in private before the Chief Justice assigns them to different members of the court to write opinions. Since, according to tradition, the Justices express their opinions at such gatherings in reverse order of seniority, Justice Cardozo speaks first. In that strategic position his scholarly gentleness, his lucidity...
...assumption of the public that the Court's decisions depend almost wholly on the private political likes of the Justices is a gross exaggeration. As Justice Cardozo pointed out in an essay, the job of the courts is to apply the Constitution and the law in cases where they are obviously meant to apply. In other cases it may be necessary for the Court to search for the intent that was behind a law to fit a particular case. Then interpretation comes into play. It comes still more into prominence when a case arises which...
...course of his self-searching Justice Cardozo asked: "What is it that I do when I decide a case?...If a precedent is applicable, when do I refuse to follow it? If no precedent is applicable, how do I reach the rule that will make a precedent for the future?...I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life. There, before us is the brew. Not a judge on the bench but has had a hand in its making....In the field of constitutional law, the method of free decision has become, I think, the dominant...