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...Bill of Rights and imposed them on the states. The Court disagreed, but over the years it slowly began to push the First Amendment's "preferred freedoms" of speech and press through the 14th Amendment door and onto the states as part of what Justice Benjamin Cardozo called a national "scheme of ordered liberty...
...Columbia's 3,700 subscribers get a review that is well attuned to New York law and a delight to big Manhattan law firms. A prime source of their recruits, Columbia also produced the late Justices Cardozo, Hughes, Reed and Stone, as well as the current court's Justice Douglas...
Fast Action. When a Supreme Court Justice retires or dies, the President usually takes a while to name a successor. Franklin Roosevelt waited six months, for example, before naming Frankfurter to succeed Benjamin Cardozo. But Kennedy had made up his mind in advance, announced Frankfurter's replacement right away: Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg (TIME cover, Sept. 22. 1961). Longtime general counsel of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg, 54, qualified as an eminent and successful lawyer, as a liberal of the activist New Frontier type, and as a Jew (Frankfurter was the court's only Jewish member, and political doctrine demanded that...
...that he did not want to appoint Frankfurter to the court. Finally, F.D.R. got to the point. "But wherever I turn," he said, "and to whomever I talk that matters to me, I am made to realize that you're the only person fit to succeed Holmes and Cardozo." And so, Roosevelt said, he was going to appoint Frankfurter to the Supreme Court anyway...
Obviously gearing his address to a university audience, variously quoted James B. Conant, Woodrow Wilson, Artemus Ward, Matthew Hale, John Randolph of Roanoke, Francis Bacon, Cardozo, Justice Holmes, and Gilbert & Sullivan...