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Influence Without Impeachment: How the Impeach Earl Warren Movement Began, Faltered, But Avoided Irrelevance Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Brett Bethune
Introduction As visitors filed into the Indianapolis Speedway on Memorial Day in 1965, they were greeted by a massive billboard declaring, “Save Our Republic! Impeach Earl Warren.”1 Earlier that year, just outside the city of Selma, Alabama, observers and participants in the historic civil rights march that took place there were confronted by a similar billboard calling for the impeachment of the Chief
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Northern Schools and Lemon’s Forgotten Segregation Claim Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Catherine Ward
Introduction For decades, scholars have studied Lemon v. Kurtzman1 for its First Amendment impact—failing to probe Lemon’s impact on racial segregation. Lemon, a 1971 landmark Establishment Clause case, involved civil rights advocates trying to use the First Amendment Establishment Clause and Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause to limit government support for segregated religious schools in
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“Commonly Estimated as One Judge”: Bushrod Washington and the Marshall Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2022-04-13 Gerard N. Magliocca
In 1822, Justice William Johnson gave Thomas Jefferson a brief description of his colleagues from his early years on the Supreme Court.1 After dismissing almost all of them as “incompetent,” “slow,” or unable to “think or write,” Justice Johnson told Jefferson that Chief Justice John Marshall and Justice Bushrod Washington “are commonly estimated as one judge.”2 One way of understanding Johnson's comment
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Earl Warren's Last Stand: Powell v. McCormack , Race, and the Political Question Doctrine Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Olivia O'Hea
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If Walls Could Talk: The Supreme Court and DACOR Bacon House Two Centuries of Connections Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Terence Walz
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The Chief Justice and the Page: Earl Warren, Charles Bush, and the Promise of Brown v. Board of Education Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Todd C. Peppers
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Brown v. Board of Education and the Politics That Created a Constitutional Icon Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Jeffrey Hockett
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Arthur A. Thomas: A Hero of a Valet Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Todd C. Peppers
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Louis D. Brandeis and the Death of Samuel D. Warren Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Peter Scott Campbell
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Trop v. Dulles : How Earl Warren's Contradicting Legal Opinions Secured Trop's Victory Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-11-01 Courtney Christensen
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Law Clerk John Costelloe's Photographs of the Stone Court Justices, October 1943 Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-07-01 John Q. Barrett
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Defending Democracy: Speeches of the Warren Court Justices and Brown v. Board of Education Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Robert A. Whitaker
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Striving for Civil Rights: Senator Edward W. Brooke, President Richard Nixon's “Southern Strategy” and the Supreme Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Jordan Alexander
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“Destructive to Judicial Dignity”: The Poetry of Melville Weston Fuller Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Todd C. Peppers,Mary Crockett Hill
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A Note from the Editor (Emeritus) Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-07-01 Melvin I. Urofsky
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The Switch to Black: Revisiting Early Supreme Court Robes Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Matthew Hofstedt
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The “Unrepentant Secessionist”: The Nomination of L.Q.C. Lamar and the Retreat from Reconstruction Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Joseph Angelillo
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Father on the Bench: Justice William R. Day and Kinship Recusal Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Clare Cushman
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Rosenberger’s Unexplored History Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Rachael E. Jones
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Make Way for Tomorrow: How Justice Tom C. Clark Departed from and (Almost) Returned to the Supreme Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2021-03-01 Craig Alan Smith
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“In Defiance of Judge Taney”: Black Constitutionalism and Resistance to Dred Scott Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-11-01 TIMOTHY S. HUEBNER
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Willis Van Devanter: Chancellor of the Taft Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-11-01 ROBERT POST
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Sons of Ohio: William Rufus Day, Nepotism, and his Law Clerks Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-11-01 CLARE CUSHMAN
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Fletcher, Whitney , and the Art of Disagreement Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-07-01 MARK R. KILLENBECK
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Kumezo Kawato and “Justice Court” Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-07-01 CHARLES J. SHEEHAN
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Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Great Mustache Debate of 1888 Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-07-01 TODD PEPPERS
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The Politics of Disabled Supreme Court Justices Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-07-01 JUDGE GLOCK
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Tension in the Unitary Executive: How Taft Constructed the Epochal Opinion of Myers v. United States Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-07-01 ROBERT POST
This article is excerpted from the forthcoming Volume X of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States, which covers the period 1921-1930 when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. The article will be published in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Supreme Court History. The article offers for the first time a detailed account of the process by which William
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Protecting Individual Rights: A Broad Public Dialogue Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-03-01 LOUIS FISHER
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Twenty‐One Months of Hell and the Supreme Court to the Rescue in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DAVID W. LEVY
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Cooley v. Board of Wardens and its Nineteenth‐Century Legacy Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-03-01 JAMES A. TODD
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Taking Note: Justice Harry A. Blackmun's Observations from Oral Argument about Life, the Law, and the U.S. Supreme Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2020-03-01 AMANDA C. BRYAN,RACHAEL HOUSTON,TIMOTHY R. JOHNSON
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The Limits of Dissent: Reassessing the Legacy of the World War I Free Speech Cases Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-11-01 LAURA WEINRIB
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The Great War, the Constitution, and the Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-11-01 MELVIN I. UROFSKY
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Body and Soul: The Selective Draft Law Cases and World War I Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-11-01 CHRISTOPHER CAPOZZOLA
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Feat of Clay : Muhammad Ali's Legal Fight against the Vietnam Draft Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-11-01 WINSTON BOWMAN
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Constitutional War Powers in World War I: Charles Evans Hughes and the Power to Wage War Successfully Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-11-01 MATTHEW C. WAXMAN
On September 5, 1917, at the height of American participation in the Great War, Charles Evans Hughes famously argued that “the power to wage war is the power to wage war successfully.” This moment and those words were a collision between the onset of “total war,” Lochner-era jurisprudence, and cautious Progressive-era administrative development. This article tells the story of Hughes’s statement—including
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The Influence of Legal Strategy in Dennis v. U.S. (1951) and Yates v. U.S. (1957) Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Hayden Thorne
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The Trees Are Still Standing: The Backstory of Sierra Club v. Morton Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-07-01 M. MARGARET MCKEOWN
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The Last Days of the Marshall Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-07-01 William Davenport Mercer
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Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase and the Permanency of the Union Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-07-01 Cynthia Nicoletti
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Ralph Waldo Emerson and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: The Subtle Rapture of Postponed Power Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Adam H. Hines
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Double Duty across the Magisterial Branches Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash
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Answering the Call: Leaving the Bench to Serve the President—James F. Byrnes and Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932–1945 Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Sidney M. Milkis,Nicholas F. Jacobs
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All Banks in Like Manner Taxed? Maryland and the Second Bank of the United States Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-03-01 Mark R. Killenbeck
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Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and President Franklin D. Roosevelt Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-03-01 JOHN Q. BARRETT
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The Supreme Court and Property Rights in the Progressive Era Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2019-03-01 JAMES W. ELY
This article challenges the conventional narrative picturing the Supreme Court during the Progressive Era as an aggressive champion of the rights of property owners in the face of reform legislation. In fact, the Supreme Court largely accommodated the Progressive agenda, and in the process diminished the constitutional protection afforded property rights. The essay surveys the Court’s treatment of
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What Say the Reeds at Runnymede? Magna Carta in Supreme Court History Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Derek A. Webb
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Bank of the United States v. Deveaux and the Birth of Constitutional Rights for Corporations Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Adam Winkler
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Sitting by Designation: Retired Justice Tom C. Clark's Federal Court Service Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Craig Alan Smith
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The Sit-In Cases: Explaining the Great Aberration of the Warren Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Christopher W. Schmidt
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Clerking for “God's Grandfather”: Chauncey Belknap's Year with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2018-11-01 Todd C. Peppers,Ira Brad Matetsky,Elizabeth R. Williams,Jessica Winn
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Sacco-Vanzetti and the Supreme Court Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2018-07-01 Brad Snyder
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Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, the Court, and the Nation Journal of Supreme Court History Pub Date : 2018-07-01 John Sexton