Day 27: Felix Frankfurter
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« on: December 24, 2006, 12:13:30 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2006, 11:01:04 AM »
HP. He took "judicial restraint" to absurd extremes. Furthermore, his Fourteenth Amendment jurisprudence leaves much to be desired.
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« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2006, 12:41:13 AM »
To that can be added the fact that most exceptions to his usual policy of judicial restraint were unsound.

But he had a lot of decisions he clearly didn't like, and that has to count for something. And for some time, he was the only thing denying Earl Warren a reliable fifth vote. I'll say marginal freedom fighter.
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