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but it was more about style than substance. He really pushed hard to get Justice Black to select me.

Justice Black told Professor Calabresi that he had to defer to his friend's veto for that year but that he would consider me for the following year. This was the best possible news because it allowed me to accept a clerkship with Judge David Bazelon on the United States Court of...

Justice Felix Frankfurter resigned from the Supreme Court

Justice Goldberg decided to run for governor. He asked his former law clerks

it is not a suicide pact.” But it is precisely during times of crisis—when the balance between momentary expediency and enduring safeguards often goes askew—that courts can perform their most critical function: to preserve or restore a sense of perspective.

Chief Justice Earl Warren had written in Trop v. Dulles (1958) that “whatever the arguments may be against capital punishment

suggesting that if even the liberal chief justice believed that the death penalty was constitutional

but Justice Brennan did not want to look at it then. He asked me to describe the results of my research to him

without making any promise that he would join any action by Justice Goldberg. Several weeks later

but this time the stakes were much higher. I answered the Justice’s question:

rather than because [I] had any real sense that justice in some way had gone astray.”

who should understand that our adversary system of justice requires that all convicted defendants be accorded a zealous appeal.

commenting that the “cynical” may say that “under a program such as Harvard’s one may accomplish covertly what Davis concedes it does openly.” Justice Powell nowhere disputed this. His answer seems to be that even if both programs produce the same result

Justice O’Connor issued a statement regretting that it has been “used in a political debate

complete with suffering and justice denied. All this permanent