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To: Travis_Bickle who wrote (72281)	6/15/2008 8:57:31 AM
From: Bridge Player	Respond to of 542059

en.wikipedia.org =================================================== Supreme Court On January 5, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Frankfurter to the U.S. Supreme Court. He served from January 30, 1939 to August 28, 1962. Despite his liberal political leanings, Frankfurter became the court's most outspoken advocate of judicial restraint, the view that courts should not interpret the fundamental law, the constitution, in such a way as to impose sharp limits upon the authority of the legislative and executive branches. In this philosophy, Frankfurter was heavily influenced by his close friend and mentor Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., who had taken a firm stand during his tenure on the bench against the doctrine of "economic due process". Frankfurter revered Justice Holmes, often citing Holmes in his opinions. In practice this meant Frankfurter was generally willing to uphold the actions of those branches against constitutional challenges so long as they did not "shock the conscience." Frankfurter was particularly well known as a scholar of civil procedure. Later in his career, this philosophy frequently put him on the dissenting side of ground-breaking decisions to end discrimination taken by the Warren court. However, Frankfurter joined the Court's unanimous opinion in Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which prohibited segregation in public schools. For the October 1948 Supreme Court Term, Frankfurter hired African American William Thaddeus Coleman as a law clerk. Frankfurter encouraged the Morgenthau Plan against Germany in World War II. =========================================================