Bad SCOTUS justices in history, not including the current ones or Roger B. Taney

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James Clark McReynolds, one of the conservative bere noires of FDR, was an infamously rude and cartoonishly petty man, to the extent even conservative justices like Taft found him intolerable and outright damaging to the court. He is one of those people whose Wikipedia page has a "personality" section that is filled with endless accounts of  bigotry and dickishness. For example, he refused to talk to the Jewish judges Louis Brandeis and Cardozzo, complaining that he did not want to be seen with a Hebrew, refusing to make eye contact with them and so on. He was so misogynistic he would walk out of the room saying "a female has arrived" like a ferengi if a woman had to appear before SCOTUS, and he turned his chair around so he would not see a black lawyer. At least one Justice retired early directly due to McReynolds' bullying, which also included his domestic staff (apparently he went AWOL from court to go duck hunting, and would make his black messenger wade through freezing water to retrieve his catches). No justices went to his funeral - although many did go the funeral of the aforementioned long suffering black servant.