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...last member of the Court, who should be the least significant in point of seniority, is far from it. In 1913 in Manhattan and The Bronx, the Fusion candidate for the Supreme Court of New York was an able young lawyer named Benjamin Nathan Cardozo. Early returns showed him running behind his ticket and he went to bed believing himself beaten. He awoke in the morning to find that: "My name led all the rest when the returns from The Bronx came in. Our good Italian citizens took my name for one of their...
...Italian is Associate Justice Cardozo. By ancestry he is a Sephardic Jew, great-great nephew of Gershom Mendes Seixas, a Rabbi who took part in the inauguration of George Washington...
...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...