Felix Frankfurter served as an attorney, law professor and justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the Court, Frankfurter had been a champion of liberal causes, including the accused robbers and murderers, Sacco and Vanzetti. Therefore, he...

Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965), an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, demonstrated a strong sense for civil liberties. Felix Frankfurter was born in Vienna, Austria, on Nov. 15, 1882. At the age of 12 he and his six brothers and sisters were...

Born November 15, 1882 Vienna, Austria Died February 22, 1965 Washington, D.C. U.S. Supreme Court justice, legal scholar, and defender of civil rights Felix Frankfurter....

Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText = "hide"; showTocToggle(); } Early life Frankfurter was born...

The charge made by Professor Michael Ariens that a memorandum supposedly written by Justice Owen J. Roberts in 1945 was actually made up by Justice Felix Frankfurter in 1955 is unfounded. Although the document cannot now be located, its disappearance can readily be accounted...

The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Civil Liberties in Modern America FELIX FRANKFURTHER was born to serve on the Supreme Court. When President Roosevelt nominated the Harvard law professor in 1939, progressives and civil libertarians uncorked the champagne. This, it was...

Following Niall Ferguson's talk about Jews & Money, a lady in the second row asked whether the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the British government committed itself to a homeland for the Jews in Palestine, arose from a need by the Brits to gain...

Steve Walt fairly, in an article by Steve Erlanger and David Sanger about why Israel and the U.S. are joined in a war on terror from Gaza to Baghdad, and maybe on to Tehran. Though, rest assured, the Times is careful to dismiss Walt...