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Last week President Hoover appointed Chief Judge Benjamin Nathan Cardozo of New York's Court of Appeals to fill the Supreme Court vacancy made by the retirement of Associate Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (TIME, Jan. 25). Senatorial Insurgents, Republicans and Demo-crats alike, unanimously applauded the choice. In making the appointment, which only a miracle could prevent the Senate from confirming, the President disregarded party and geographical distinctions. Judge Cardozo is a Democrat, although he has the support of both parties in his State, and will be the third New York member of the nation's highest tribunal...
Brightest gem in his State's judicial crown, Judge Cardozo, a thin-nosed patrician descendant of Sephardic Jews, may be expected to bolster up the Court's fine Liberal-Conservative balance, which was jeopardized by Liberal Justice Holmes's retirement...
Ever since he was graduated from Columbia Law School 42 years ago, aged 19, Judge Cardozo has been an advocate of fluidity in the law. In 1914, month after he was elected to the State Supreme Court, he was appointed to the Court of Appeals. He has been there ever since. And although his father was one of the judicial triumvirate behind New York City's William M. ("Boss") Tweed, Judge Cardozo has kept his office aloof from politics...
...naming of Judge Cardozo of New York for the Supreme Court by President Hoover is greeted no less with satisfaction than with surprise Judge Cardozo is a man of scholarly ability as well as experience in public affairs his books on jurisprudence have made him well known to students of government his services as chief justice of the New York State Court of Appeals have marked him as a liberal and original thinker...
Hasiv observers two weeks and although realizing the fitness of Judge Cardozo, thought that as a Jew, a New Yorker, and a liberal Democrat he could expect little consideration from a conservative Republican President. From a religious, sectional, and political point of view, it seemed that President Hoover, by naming Cardozo would be sacrificing a great deal to the national interest. As there has been little reason to expect subtlety from President Hoover, the first impulse is to commend him for his altruism...