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Last week Associate Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis, the only Jew who ever sat in the Supreme Court, celebrated his 70th birthday. The New York Jewish Tribune congratulated him as "the epitome of all that is finest in Americanism and Judaism...
...August Dorchy v. the State of Kansas, the Supreme Court decided that the state statute, punishing anyone who induces others to strike when the strike is not justifiable, or who orders them to strike through his power incidental to office in a union, is constitutional. Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis handed down the decision, said that neither the common law nor the 14th Amendment confers the absolute right to strike...
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis (that brilliant Jew who puts the "rights of man" above all else) dissented along with Justice McReynolds...
...liberal cast of thought." Willis Van Devanter, 67, of Wyoming-"a student not impractical, a scholar not pedantic." James Clark McReynolds, 64, of Tennessee, a bachelor with few pleasures aside from work-"one of the most detached, most solitary, least wordly men now in public life." Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 70, of Massachusetts, the only Jew who ever sat in the Supreme Court- "in his decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man." George Sutherland, 64, of Utah- "the greatest Constitutional lawyer in the Senate."-William Howard Taft. Pierce Butler, 60, of Minnesota, described...
Besides this innovation there was another at the opening session. For the first time in history a daughter of one of the Justices appeared before the Court to argue a case. She was Miss Susan Brandeis* daughter of Louis Dembitz Brandeis, member of an old Kentucky family, the only Jew who has ever been a member of the Court. Justice Brandeis has been called a radical. He is an admitted liberal, a Justice in whose decisions the rights of property are likely to be subordinated to the rights of man. Yet he is a stickler for the formalities...