Today in Supreme Court History: May 8, 1884

5/8/1884: President Harry S. Truman's birthday. He would make four appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Vinson, and Justices Burton, Clark, and Minton.

Comments

[The Turtle Dove]

Minton is the namesake of the writing award at Indiana Law -- local lore has it that his opinions were not particularly well crafted. Indiana can be a peculiar place.

Mr. D.

[Alpheus W Drinkwater]

Ian Samuel comes to mind. I sure do miss "First Mondays." I hope he is doing okay.

[Jeff Walden]

You and me both. Slack channel still has a few hangers-on for random appellate/SCOTUS discussions among enthusiasts, but I miss a good SCOTUS podcast that gets into the weeds, and strives to be even-handed in its treatment of cases. (Strict Scrutiny most definitely ain't it, in several initial episodes of it I listened to. Not sure, amid all my other podcasts, whether I'll catch back up to the present with it or not.) Not that they fully succeeded, but they succeeded about as well as could be hoped for, given the hosts' predilections.

[Mark Galus]

There's no E on the end of Tom Clark's name. You might be thinking of John H. Clarke, who was appointed by Wilson.

[Dan Schiavetta]

Second time he made that mistake, and someone pointed it out the first time. When the inevitable COA appointment comes it will interesting to read Josh's opinions, particularly his take on Roee v. Wade.

[arbitrary aardvark]

There's no period in Harry S Truman; that's his full name. There's some dispute over this; wikipedia has it wrong.