Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blind to the fact that supreme court appointments are extremely touchy matters. Justices, whether potential or confirmed, are of necessity super-shy with regard to any and all public appearances that might be used in any way as the basis for a misfounded rumore of partisanship concerning some legal question...
...national comment in the press since Saturday has dwelt upon Mr. Reed's past leading part in the argument of leading cases for the Government. Obviously he cannot be too discreet with regard to legal issues that may later come before him as a member of the court. The question for argument on Friday presents such issues...
...however, C. I. O.'s attempt to exorcise Mayor Hague. One of the chief legal problems in fighting Mayor Hague is difficulty of getting arrested in Jersey City. Anyone the Mayor considers undesirable is simply bundled out of town, and for years Arthur Garfield Hays has been battling for the "Constitutional right of every American to be arrested." Last week in Manhattan several days before the great rally, while Mr. Hays was delivering a radio attack on Mayor Hague over station WEVD, an unidentified young woman, passing as a reporter, slipped into the studio. Edging up to the speaker...
...appointment of Solicitor General Stanley Reed to the Supreme Court gives President Roosevelt reasonable assurance that he can now carry out his program unhampered by constant judicial interference. The United States needs a high court that can adjust legal theory to economic reality in the face of rapidly changing conditions. We can no longer afford the cultural lag that has so long afflicted the judiciary...
...view of the circumstances" is a favorable reflection on the President's good judgment in selecting Reed. Mr. Roosevelt might have picked a senatorial progressive who has fought many political battles for the administration or be might have chosen a brilliant professor who has done much to reshape legal thinking. But such an appointee would inevitably have been scored as just a partisan agent or an impractical theorist. By appointing a lawyer who has won the admiration of administration critics, the President has accomplished his purpose without offending a large block of people whose confidence and cooperation are desirable...