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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Austrian-born American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 until 1962, during which he was an advocate of judicial restraint.
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- Arthur Goldberg
Felix Frankfurter was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939–62), a noted scholar and teacher of law, who was in his time the high court’s leading exponent of the doctrine of judicial self-restraint. He held that judges should adhere closely to precedent, disregarding their.
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Aug 12, 2022 · August 12, 2022. In September 1953, with the Supreme Court only months away from rehearing oral argument in Brown v. Board of Education, Justice Felix Frankfurter received word while...
- Justin Driver
Felix Frankfurter | Oyez. The Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States (Artist: Gardener Cox) Born. Nov 15, 1882. Vienna, Austria. Died. Feb 22, 1965. Religion. Jewish. Mother. Emma Winter. Father. Leopold Frankfurter. Father's occupation. Merchant. Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Historical profiles documenting the personal background, plus nomination and confirmation dates of previous associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Felix Frankfurter
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Feb 10, 2023 · Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, The Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment. By Brad Snyder. New York, N.Y.: W.W. Norton & Company. 2022. Pp. 979. $45.00. Volume 136. Issue 4. February 2023. See full issue. Download. See Footnotes.
Dec 14, 2022 · In his definitive new biography of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who served on the bench from 1939 to 1962, Georgetown Law professor Brad Snyder reevaluates the conventional story of Frankfurter’s progression from liberal advocate to conservative jurist.