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...office in the Department of Justice next in rank to the Attorney Generalship and charged with the duty of handling-most of the Government cases before the Supreme Court (TIME, Apr. 20). * Other fish he did not mention: London Embassy, Berlin Embassy, Attorney Generalship of the U. S., Associate Justiceship of the Supreme Court. (TIME...
...associated with these men of wider fame that justice was done his memory. On another point Mr. Pellew does not make so strong a case. His attempt to show that the first declaration by the Supreme Court of the unconstitutionality of an act of Congress came in Jay's justiceship is weak; for the court's protest in 1790 was a radically different matter from a constitutional decision. On the whole, however, the author has clearly vindicated his claim that Jay is entitled to the grateful memory of his countrymen...