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Since President Truman appointed Tom Clark and Sherman Minton to the Supreme Court a year ago, many people have maintained the Bench's decisions show signs of a swing to the right. Others have argued that there has been no change or that, if anything, the Court is more liberal than before...
...mind: Chief Justice Vinson's majority opinion was shared by Justices Burton and Reed; Justice Frankfurter was on their side, but for his own rendered reasons; Justice Black flatly dissented; and Justice Jackson was somewhere in the middle, partly agreeing, partly dissenting. Three others (Justices Douglas, Clark and Minton) stayed out of the argument altogether...
President Truman's appointment of Sherman Minton to replace Rutledge made hotter a controversy already started by the President's naming of Clark to take Frank Murphy's place. Both Murphy and Rutledge had been strong "liberals," while their replacements had no such public record. Politicians, lawyers, and writers began to wonder, in print, how these appointments would affect Court policy, with many important decisions, including a large number on civil rights, pending...
...limited area" without a warrant if the action is incidental to an arrest for which there are proper documents. Justice Frankfurter, in dissenting, claimed that such police action violated the fourth amendment. Frankfurter remarked that changes in Justices on the bench should not change the law--an allusion to Minton and Clark, both in the majority. Most of the Court's important votes, however, have not pointed up any great split between "right" and "left" on the bench...
...Alarmed. It was a clear victory for the Department of Justice, which had felt itself hampered under existing search & seizure laws. Frankfurter in his dissent was alarmed at the way the majority decision upset a principle reaffirmed as recently as two years ago, before the two new Truman appointees, Minton and ex-Attorney General Tom Clark, reached the bench. Frankfurter read his freshman colleagues a cutting lecture...