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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (72271)6/14/2008 7:25:15 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (2) of 542060
 
"I suggest," wrote Felix Frankfurter in a letter to a patriot a good deal like Justice Scalia, "that you consider what law really means. Anybody can give law to his friends. It's the essence of law to give it to our enemies." Frankfurter wrote those words at a time of national panic around the Sacco and Vanzetti trial; but they reveal a principle he kept in mind when he served on the Supreme Court, from 1939 to 1962. The law, he summed up, is "all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling." It remains the same unbridled feeling whatever enemy it designates and whatever Heimat or homeland it clutches as its present excuse.

I don't know very much about Frankfurter, but from what I do know, we need a couple of Justices like him on the Court today.
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