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...Joining with Black were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan and William J. Brennan Jr. Black and Warren are Baptists; Clark, Harlan and Douglas are Presbyterians (Douglas is a minister's son; Clark served for years as a church elder). Brennan is the court's only Roman Catholic. Justices Felix Frankfurter and Byron R. White took no part in the decision. White and Dissenter Stewart are Episcopalians, and Frankfurter is a Jew by origin, but answers "no comment" when asked about his religious affiliation...
...small farmer, later a storekeeper, in rural Harlan, Ala., Black had little pre-law college training, but obtained a law degree from the University of Alabama with honors. He set up private practice in Ashland, became a police judge and later a prosecuting attorney. In 1925 he decided to forsake a $50,000-a-year law practice, mostly in damage suits, to run for the Senate. Though virtually unknown, he beat four other candidates in a statewide campaign conducted from a model...
...HARLAN M. TWIBLE Michigan City...
...Harlan and Charles Evans Whittaker...
...cases." By its latest decision, the Supreme Court has merely opened the cupboard door. It holds that crazy-quilt systems of legislative apportionment may violate the 14th Amendment to the Constitution requiring "equal protection of the laws." In his dissent, Justice Frankfurter, who was joined by Justice John Marshall Harlan, urged "complete detachment, in fact and appearance, from political entanglements." Wrote Frankfurter: "There is not under our Constitution a judicial remedy for every political mischief"-and relief for victims of unfair apportionment "must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives...