Dishing the Supremes: Those lovable justices
Tales of arrogance, pettiness, spite, and other personal foibles on the nation’s highest court, in a nice New York Times piece by Noah Feldman.
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Tales of arrogance, pettiness, spite, and other personal foibles on the nation’s highest court, in a nice New York Times piece by Noah Feldman.
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I agree that one doesn’t have to be a warm, likable person to be a good Sup Ct justice.
However, a note on a side issue: Feldman thinks that Douglas, Black, Jackson, and Frankfurter were all ‘great’ justices.
I’m not the expert on this, but fwiw I don’t think Frankfurter was a great justice (though he was a great intellect and maybe great in other ways). But then one of the problems w/ the column is that Feldman’s criteria for greatness are not altogether clear.
Posted by: LFC | June 14, 2009 10:50 AM