The American jurist Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) was President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Associate Justice Black was an ardent New Dealer and led the liberal and activist wing of the Court for more than 32...

Hugo Black was one of the most enigmatic of a notably enigmatic generation of New Deal Southern Democrats that rose to national power in the thick of this century. Lyndon Johnson had his towering contradictions, but even those did not surpass Black's. The...

Among high-ranking public officials in the United States during the 20th century, none was a more ardent admirer of Thomas Jefferson than Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black. Few, if any, looked to Jefferson for inspiration and guidance on important public issues to the...

Hugo Black IIIMIAMI (AP) _ Assistant U.S. Attorney Hugo Black III, who shared a name with his grandfather the former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, died Saturday. He was 54.Colleagues at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami confirmed that Black died from intestinal bleeding at his...

My first reaction after President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court was: Ohmigod. My second was: Why do we care so much? Begin with ohmigod. I don’t want to be here, and I resent Mr. Bush for putting...