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...repeated that the reason she had not gone further into the case of Harry Bridges was that she was waiting for the Supreme Court to decide the parallel case of Joe Strecker, which Solicitor-General Jackson was about to prosecute for her with real vim (see p. 14). She expressed awe at the immense power she wields over aliens, as their investigator, prosecutor, jury and judge. Because of this, she said, she always tries to act "with scrupulous fairness." She said: "I have entire faith and confidence that Congress will protect me and secure my rights and reputation...
...Justices Butler and McReynolds dissented. Justice Reed did not participate in the case because he had appeared for TVA as Solicitor General. Justice Frankfurter was sworn in only a few minutes before the decision was read...
...implied criticism of the New Deal was enough to arouse Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson. An ex officio member of the House of Delegates, he advised his colleagues: "Let's not spend our time tilting against windmills. . . The fact is, the record of administrative tribunals is slightly better than that of the lower courts, where appeals were made. Federal agencies won 64% of their cases, while lower courts were sustained in only 54% of the cases appealed, over a ten-year period...
...unofficial, unpaid employment agency for legal talent for 25 years before it found its biggest client in the New Deal. In 1932 he turned down an appointment to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. In 1933 he turned down Franklin Roosevelt's offer to make him Solicitor General. Last week, however, Franklin Roosevelt made Felix Frankfurter an offer he could not reject: to ascend to the famed "scholar's seat" on the U. S. Supreme Court, succeeding his friend Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, who in turn had succeeded another friend, Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Franklin Roosevelt's long indecision about his Attorney General was at last resolved by Vice President Garner and Jim Farley: five New Yorkers in the Cabinet would really be too many, therefore the President must pass over Solicitor-General Bob Jackson. Mr. Garner's thorough approval of Michigan's rufous Governor-reject Frank Murphy settled the matter. With that approval, the man-who-was-soft-on-sit-down-strikers could be confirmed without trouble. So Mr. Murphy packed up in Lansing, took his brother George, his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan and the Bible his mother gave...