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dc.contributor.authorRodell, Fred
dc.date2021-11-25T13:34:28.000
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-26T11:39:54Z
dc.date.available2021-11-26T11:39:54Z
dc.date.issued1958-01-01T00:00:00-08:00
dc.identifierfss_papers/2752
dc.identifier.contextkey1944127
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/2097
dc.description.abstractSupreme Court justices, by and large, are a pretty dull and anonymous lot to the average man. An occasional Holmes may become a legend on a Civil War record, a Back Bay claque, longevity, and flowering moustachios. An occasional Hughes may become familiar by running for the presidency and sporting a full-rigged beard. But the nine men in their marble temple, even when they are Dred Scotting or anti-New Dealing or desegregating, usually make the news en masse; it is not they but the Court that has done this wonderful or terrible thing; and who is that character sitting second from the left? Namelessness springs in part, of course, from the Garbo-like withdrawal that almost all the Justices affect, once they are Justices. But there is something more. These are the ultimate among egg-heads; their world is a world of sheer thinking; they write in and of the ratiocinations of law. Indeed, the law—save for frolics and detours on the same intellectually stratospheric level—is generally their life.
dc.titleJustice Douglas: An Anniversary Fragment for a Friend
dc.source.journaltitleFaculty Scholarship Series
refterms.dateFOA2021-11-26T11:39:55Z
dc.identifier.legacycoverpagehttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2752
dc.identifier.legacyfulltexthttps://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3755&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1


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