Felix Frankfurter
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. Supreme ...
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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 a...
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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...
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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 th...
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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,...
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In his 89 years, Arthur M. Schlesinger was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, a Kennedy insider, and an influential thinker who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War."(He had) en...
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Speaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment, by Floyd Abrams. Viking, 306 pages, $25.95.
It's hard to think of a practicing attorney more consistently associated with any single area of litigat...
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It was quiet on Floyd Abrams' side of the thick door leading into the television studio. On the other side, Jon Stewart was warming up the young, rowdy crowd perched in the bleachers to watch the l...
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Frankfurter, Felix
Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter
Marty Peretz on Louis Brandeis and Walter Lippmann
