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...Tammany Mayoralty Candidates John Purroy Mitchel (1913) and Fiorello La Guardia (1933), though a Democrat crossed party lines to support Tom Dewey for New York attorney general, denounce F.D.R.'s 1937 Supreme Court-packing bill, promoted the careers of some of the leading jurists of his time (Benjamin Cardozo. Learned Hand) in an unflagging effort to improve the quality of the courts, maintained for a full century his reasoning and the wit that leavened his zeal; in Manhattan...
...F.D.R. tried and failed to get Congress to raise the number of Justices from nine to 15. But he got the New Deal sympathy he wanted within three years by naming Liberal Democrats Hugo Black, Reed, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas to succeed Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis-key figures on the court that New Dealers scornfully called "The Nine Old Men." Since 1953 Ike has named three-Republicans Chief Justice Earl Warren and John Marshall Harlan, Democrat William J. Brennan Jr. Of the F.D.R. holdovers, Justice Black is now 70, Justice Frankfurter 74. Only hard clues...
Appointed to the bench by President Roosevelt in 1942 at the age of 35, Wyzanski said in his letter that the judges he most admires, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Justice Benjamin Cardozo, and Judge Augustus N. Hand, "have been the strictest in applying to themselves a self-denying ordinance when they were offered attractive posts outside of their courts...
...later occasion, the Supreme Court, at a time when its membership included many jurists who have deservedly won reputations for their devotion to civil liberty, rather scoffed at the privilege . . . Justice [Benjamin] Cardozo, writing for the court, said 'This [privilege] too might be lost and justice still to be done ... No doubt there would remain the need to give protection against torture, physical or mental. Justice, however, would not perish if the accused were subject to a duty to respond to orderly inquiry.' This language was concurred in by Justices Hughes, Stone, Brandeis, Roberts and Black...
Marcus Aaron 3L, and Richard J. Graving 3L, claimed unreasonable detention in Crasnov's case in their argument for Cardozo Club...