Today in Supreme Court History: January 30, 1939

1/30/1939: Justice Felix Frankfurter takes oath.

Justice Felix Frankfurter

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[Dan Schiavetta]

“I solemnly swear to be the most pompous man ever to sit on this Court, to be a closed-minded stick in the mud for the next 23 years, to engage in juvenile cat fights with Douglas that entire time, to contribute nothing to the Court’s jurisprudence except that idiotic “outcome determinative” test, yet know that I will be widely quoted because I taught Con Law at Harvard for 25 years.”

[bernard11]

I solemnly swear to be the most pompous man ever to sit on this Court

Frankfurter was a hotdog?

(Not remotely original, I'm sure.)

Anyway, pomposity sort of goes with the territory, doesn't it?

[F.D. Wolf]

"My God! Another Jew on the Court."

- Justice James Clark McReynolds