Word: fortases
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Future Justice or no, Ely probably need not worry about posterity. As a Yale law student, he helped future Court Justice Abe Fortas win the landmark Gideon v. Wainwright case, in which the Court declared that indigents have the constitutional rights to counsel at trials. He did a stint on...
Lyndon Johnson leaps to mind. He was a product of the tumultuous Roosevelt years, when the court was more enemy than friend. The goal was to get enough of the old gang aboard to have the court with you instead of against you. A molder of men, Johnson knew how...