TERRY SCAMBRAY: Truth about America can be twisted Oct 4, 2008
He finessed Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard professor, into writing an article which became the most influential polemic supporting the defendants. Though the article was rubbish, Frankfurter's prestige mesmerized the intelligentsia. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
DAVID BRODER:Senators can learn from new book Jul 28, 2008
One of the wisest men I ever knew in Washington was the late James H. Rowe Jr. He came out of Montana, went to Harvard Law School and was recruited by Felix Frankfurter for a job on FDR's White House staff. In later years, he became a counselor to Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and other Democrats of that generation. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Throwing precaution to the wind Jul 13, 2008
Cass R. Sunstein is Felix Frankfurter professor of law, Harvard Law School, and coauthor, most recently, of "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness." This was adapted from an article in the spring issue of Daedalus. Copyright 2008 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Rehnquist Parody Found at Library of Congress May 14, 2008
A later line says that justices "Verbose and mum, and smart and dumb/ Were equally affected." Felix Frankfurter was the verbose one, Barrett posits, and Vinson may have been the dumb one. The others were harder to pin down. (Law.com)
ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ: Israel at 60: So vilified, yet so deserving of praise May 8, 2008
Alan M. Dershowitz is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law at Harvard Law School. His latest book is "Is There a Right to Remain Silent?". (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Cruel and unusual history May 6, 2008
Justice Felix Frankfurter defined the teenager's ordeal as an "innocent misadventure." In the decision, Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber, the court held that "accidents happen for which no man is to blame," and that such "an accident, with no suggestion of malevolence" did not violate the Constitution. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Take a peek inside 'The End' Mar 25, 2008
Already we have Bernard Baruch, Felix Frankfurter, Groucho Marx, the good half of Mayor La Guardia. Already we have Hank Greenberg, the best first baseman in the history of baseball. (USA Today -- Life)
Op-Ed / Brad Pfeiffer: Heroes of religious freedom Mar 8, 2008
Concurring with Justice Black, Justice Felix Frankfurter described the public schools as a symbol of our secular unity that must keep scrupulously free from entanglement in the strife of sects. The years of fighting their case through the courts was not easy on the family. (Heber Springs Sun-Times, AR)
William F. Buckley, Jr. Dead at 82 Feb 28, 2008
Most of this country s collectivists, admittedly, have been comforted and inspired, at one time or another, by the highly publicized speeches and writings of Alvin Hansen, Seymour Harris, Felix Frankfurter and the rest. Yale hasn t counterparts of such notoriety. (Human Events Online)
Tracing Gaza's chaos to 1948 Feb 21, 2008
Ironically, Zionist leaders like Felix Frankfurter, the supreme court justice, would argue that "no cordon sanitaire" could protect Palestine from the modern world that he believed only arrived with the Zionist movement and British rule. But in truth neither had brought modernity to Palestine because it had arrived decades earlier. (Aljazeera.Net)
Lincoln's love for the law Feb 13, 2008
And they learn that although Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg graduated near the top of her class at Columbia Law School, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter refused to consider her as a law clerk because she was a woman, and not one single firm in New York City offered her a job. Perhaps Ginsburg's personal battles to overcome professional discrimination helped galvanize her to help change the gender face of American law. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Former honorary citizen takes the big step Feb 2, 2008
Among previous naturalized Americans are former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; Gen. John Shalikashvili, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; physicists Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi; and former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. That s not to mention comedian Bob Hope, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and several one-time members of the national men s soccer team. (Lima News, OH)
Op-Ed / Richard Mays: Mankind -- The cruelist animal Jan 23, 2008
A former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Felix Frankfurter, wrote that Limited as the law is, it s all we have between us and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings. The law is all we have to protect, not only humans, but also animals from the world s cruelest species mankind. (Heber Springs Sun-Times, AR)
Letter to the Editor: OSCCR: Rules set campus standards Jan 17, 2008
In 1957, former Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter opined in Sweezy v. New Hampshire that, "It is the business of a university to provide that atmosphere which is most conducive to speculation, experimentation and creation. It is an atmosphere in which there prevail 'the four essential freedoms' of a university - to determine for itself on academic grounds who may teach, what may be taught, how it shall be taught and who may be admitted to study.". History shows that arguments regarding the... (Northeastern News, MA)
For the Supreme Court, a Docket Full of Drama Jan 5, 2008
"We're holding it for the election," Justice Felix Frankfurter told a clerk. "It's just the practicalities of life -- common sense.". (Law.com)
The Dropout Cop-Out: Turning off TV, dumping drill-and-kill exercises inspire kids Dec 9, 2007
Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote, " ... there is nothing more unfair than equal treatment of unequals." This is particularly true in education, where NCLB causes everyone to have the same college-bound curriculum track with little differentiation, no vocational education, no fast tracks, no individualized programs, just the same mind-numbing drill and practice for standardized tests. It is the same test and same standard if you are mentally retarded or brilliant. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Currie shared ‘conversational magic’ with Law students for 45 years Dec 7, 2007
Following his graduation from law school, Currie clerked for Court of Appeals Judge Henry Friendly and then for Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. He joined the University Law School faculty in 1962, becoming a full Professor in 1968. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
POLITICS OF SLIME Oct 27, 2007
As Gary McDowell noted recently in the Wall Street Journal, that time span included the careers of Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black and Felix Frankfurter. Then-Judiciary Committee chairman Joseph Biden, Kennedy's lieutenant in the assault, told the Philadelphia Inquirer not long before Bork was nominated: "Say the administration sends up Bork. I'd have to vote for him, and if the (liberal interest) groups tear me apart, that's the medicine I'll have to take." But when it came time to take his... (New York Post -- Opinions)
The Borking of American Politics Oct 26, 2007
As Gary McDowell noted recently in the Wall Street Journal, that time span included the careers of Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black and Felix Frankfurter ... As Gary McDowell noted recently in the Wall Street Journal, that time span included the careers of Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black and Felix Frankfurter. (Townhall.com)
The Supreme Court stakes at an all-time high Oct 10, 2007
For decades, conservative legal giants were apostles of judicial restraint -- Justices like Felix Frankfurter and the younger John Marshall Harlan and theorists like Harvard Law Professor Alexander Bickel. Their goal was to cabin what they deemed to be the xcesses of the Warren Court and to make the Supreme Court the east Dangerous Branch, as Bickel once described it. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
US terror interrogation went too far, experts say Aug 14, 2007
He quoted a 1949 opinion by then Justice Felix Frankfurter. It said: "There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.". (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Kuznick: A-Bomb Jul 30, 2007
"Conant," Stimson explained to Felix Frankfurter, "felt very much worried over the spreading accusation that it was entirely unnecessary to use the atomic bomb." Stimson admitted, "I have rarely been connected with a paper about which I have so much doubt at the last moment."[82] He, more than most, understood the possibility that changing surrender terms might end the war without using atomic bombs or invading and struggled unsuccessfully to convince Truman to do so. In his memoir, he and Bundy... (Zmag.org)
Stacking the U.S. Supreme Court Jul 27, 2007
If the Roberts court has entered voluntarily what Justice Felix Frankfurter once called the "political thicket," it may require a political solution to set it straight. The framers of the Constitution did not envisage the Supreme Court as arbiter of all national issues. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Remembering The Great Depression Jun 19, 2007
"It s not wise to make the Greenspan of your era -- for that s what Andrew Mellon was -- a giant scapegoat and prosecute him for six years. It just doesn t inspire business confidence. I m paraphrasing what Andersen said. But generally Anderson knew. He was writing in the papers This isn t wise. This isn t going to help the recovery. But the administration more or less ignored him. So when you go back to the period you find people just like you, who know just what you know. We know tariffs are... (Human Events Online)
Calling for impeachment Jun 4, 2007
Felix Frankfurter (U.S. Supreme Court associate justice from 1939 to 1965) stated: If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
Museum, Google Zoom In on Darfur Apr 14, 2007
Bloomfield recalled the story of Jan Karski, a young Pole who came to America in 1943 and attempted to describe to a skeptical Justice Felix Frankfurter, himself a Jew, what he had seen in the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi death camp. After asking technical questions, pacing back and forth and then quietly sitting down, the judge told the Pole, "I am unable to believe you." He was not the first person in an Allied country to react to Karski's atrocity stories with disbelief. (Washington Post)
Today's Editorial Cartoon Apr 11, 2007
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Liberal voice Arthur M. Schlesinger dead at 89 Mar 2, 2007
Schlesinger was surrounded by his parents' many influential friends, such as Western conservationist and historian Bernard DeVoto, future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, novelist John Dos Passos and humorist James Thurber. The intellectually precocious Schlesinger, who skipped the second and fourth grades, was a voracious reader who devoured the classics and historical novels. (Sun-Sentinel.com)
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., 89 Mar 2, 2007
Family friends included James Thurber, historian Charles A. Beard and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. Mr. Schlesinger attended Phillips Exeter Academy and in 1938 graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University. (Globe and Mail)
Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Dies at 89 Mar 2, 2007
Family friends included James Thurber, historian Charles A. Beard and future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter. "My childhood was, in recollection, a generally sunny time," Schlesinger wrote in "A Life in the Twentieth Century," published in 2000. (Newsmax)
- Jan Morris Feb 14, 2007
Whisper of how I'm yearning", sang George M Cohan in one of the great American songs of nostalgia, "to mingle with the old time throng". Well, I'm yearning too, not for the gang at 42nd Street exactly, but for the America that Cohan was indirectly hymning - for the Idea of America, with a capital I, which once made the United States not just the most potent of all the nations but genuinely the most liked.Perhaps, with a future new president already champing at the bit, we are about to witness... (Guardian Unlimited)
Phyllis Ames Cox; potent presence behind Watergate prosecutor Feb 8, 2007
Gormley's biography says that when Felix Frankfurter, who would become a US Supreme Court justice, heard about the engagement, he sent a note of congratulations: "My God, what a powerful legal combination!". Although she taught young children for brief periods at schools in Concord and in Virginia, Mrs. Cox devoted her life to her husband and children and a menagerie that at one point numbered three horses, a dog, a cat, and a dozen hens. (Boston Globe)
Lincoln memorials Feb 4, 2007
James F. Simon, who has written books comparing John Marshall with Thomas Jefferson and Hugo Black with Felix Frankfurter, sets the greatest president against the infamous chief justice whose reputation declined as Lincoln's rose. "Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney" works because the law professor respects the great jurist. (Boston Globe)
