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and he told me that Marshall had sought his advice about a therapist and that the Goldberg story was well known among his close circle of friends.

if I promised to keep it a secret until Goldberg and Marshall were both dead. I promised.

an Eisenhower mistake. They didn’t know he would be so liberal. Eisenhower regarded Warren and Brennan as his worst mistakes.”

I must recount one vignette regarding Justice Goldberg that caused me considerable disappointment. One of the great villains of the day to all liberals was J. Edgar Hoover

the 1963-64 term was among the most significant and innovative in the history of the American judiciary

” since it was directly above the Supreme Courtroom itself. Rumor had it that in previous years the clerks used to play basketball while the Justices were hearing arguments

my second son Jamin was born. Since we did not know many people in Washington

anybody could walk into the chambers; today

because he told her that shots had been fired in Dallas. We turned on a small television set that had been in my cubicle ever since the World Series a couple of months earlier. Nothing was yet on the news. A few minutes later everyone in th...

where he and his wife Dorothy sang labor and Zionist songs from their youth. When he moved to New York

he always introduced us and encouraged us to sit on part of the discussion. Knowing that I was interested in Israel

tells us much about the man and his relationship to his law clerks

Goldberg had accomplished an enormous amount. Unlike most of the current justices

I interviewed with several of the other Justices

my grandmother came to town and I took her and my son Elon

but I strongly preferred to clerk for a new Justice whose views were not as firmly formed. I asked to see Justice Goldberg before I formally accepted his offer. I told him that I wanted him to know that I would not be able to work on Saturd...

the lower federal courts or the state courts—has had a more profound impact on the law’s sensitivity to human needs.

so long as at least one other judge agreed to reverse the conviction and order a new trial with a proper instruction on flight and guilt. 18

whereas the actual murderer reacts in a cool dispassionate way

or the guilty explanation that he was fleeing from a pick pocketing crime