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4.2.12 WC: 191694 When I told Bazelon about the justice quote from the Torah, he asked me why the word justice was repeated. Wouldn’t it have been enough to say “justice you must actively chase after.” “Why ‘justice, justice.”” No word, or even syllable of the Torah is supposed...

… participate in many of their lunches—mostly as a quiet observer—during my clerkship. (When I became a professor, Judge Bazelon invited me whenever I visited—then as a full participant). The first time I went to Kronheim’s for lunch, we picked up two justices at the Supreme Cour...

…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 Appeals for the District of Columbia. Judge Bazelon was actually my first choice, but I also wanted--indeed I felt I need...

…t. “He’s a bit more optimistic that cooler heads will prevail. Come into work.” So off I went to the courthouse, where Bazelon gave us hourly updates on the Cuban Missile Crisis until it was resolved by a deal. “I misjudged those Kennedy boys,” he told me when the crisis was ove...

… controversies, such as a railroad accident or a conventional contract dispute, into monumental legal decisions. Judge Bazelon did the same with regard to criminal cases, especially those involving defendants who could not afford an adequate defense and those with serious mental...

…erbatim account of every word spoken during the trial, as well as during the pretrial and post-trial proceedings. Judge Bazelon would often ask me to read the entire transcript in search of errors or particular issues that were of interest to him. When we completed the review, w...

… views about Hoover be known to Goldberg, but he never said a word. I didn’t understand why. A few years later, I asked Bazelon, who smiled, and said “I probably shouldn’t tell you, but it’s important for you to know that there are no perfect heroes.” He continued, “Hoover and Go...

… for many years, or Jewish clubs, which limit their memberships to my own co-religionists. (More on this later.) Judge Bazelon played hard and worked even harder. For his law clerks it was all work, no play. We had to be in the office before he arrived, and his arrival time was...

…ren Court. It was a heady time for a young liberal lawyer to be in the nation’s capital. My year of clerking for Judge Bazelon Even more important than my substantive experiences in working with these two important judges, was the personal impact they both had on my life. Each...

who I had known when I clerked for Judge Bazelon. Burger and Bazelon were arch enemies

…nd sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison. The court appointed a lawyer named Monroe Freedman to argue his appeal. Judge Bazelon invited me to watch the oral argument. I was blown away by Freedman’s eloquence, erudition, command of the record and ability to further his argument w...

decided toward the end of the year of my Bazelon clerkship. That decision ruled that

David Bazelon called to inform me that he had early stage

especially Warren Burger. Sparks would fly and Bazelon generally

4.2.12 WC: 191694 One of the most intriguing cases during my year with Judge Bazelon began as an ordinary pick pocketing of a wallet containing $14. Based on the sparse evidence, “the jury could have inferred either that the wallet was picked from [the alleged victim’s] pocket,...