Today in Supreme Court History: March 8, 1841

3/8/1841: Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's birthday.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

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[Dan Schiavetta]

God’s devious way to anger David Bernstein, born over a hundred years later.

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Great picture though; looks like someone gave him a couple of shiners. Hmmmm .... has David Bernstein invented a time machine?

[Dan Schiavetta]

“The life of the law is not logic but (ouch!!) experience.”

[ReaderY]

In honor of Justice Holmes’ birthday

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/59148/59148-h/59148-h.htm

[jph12]

Ah yes, good ol Ollie Holmes. A true man of the people working to make sure their dreams come true. He just knew Carrie Buck really dreamed of being forcibly sterilized by the state and he made sure it happened. Sure, she might have said that her dreams were of having more children, but what did she know about her own dreams? She was just an imbecile, all evidence to the contrary be damned, and good ol Ollie Homes was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

[SMP0328]

Holmes, and the Justices with whom he served, couldn't have cared less about Constitutional rights. Along with Buck v. Bell, there was Schenck v. United States. In Schenck, Holmes and his colleagues decided anti-war speech was a "clear and present danger" and so was not entitled to First Amendment protection.