THE TRAGEDY OF FELIX FRANKFURTER: FROM CIVIL LIBERTIES AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST TO REACTIONARY JUSTICE
This article reconsiders the life and record of Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.Frankfurter was smart, hardworking, and talented, serving as a great activist lawyer and important law professor in his early career.When nominated to the court, there were high hopes he would follow Holmes and Brandeis in leading a progressive Court that would