Today in Supreme Court History: August 24, 1946

8/24/1946: Justice James McReynolds dies.

Justice James McReynolds

Comments

[Dan Schiavetta]

Would feel quite at home here, at least with most of the commenters.

[Darth Chocolate]

Why do you stay if you’re so put off by the commenters?

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

It's a marketplace of ideas during a (settled, but not completed) culture war.

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Several of his ilk have expressly said that they want Josh to stop posting stuff because (a) they think his school is third rate at best, (b) they don't like what he posts, (c) if they don't like it, it must stop, (d) they would rather insult and sneer and whine than simply go about their business.

Seriously, several of them have said this, in so many words. They know better than Josh what he should post, they know better than readers what they should read, and they have nothing better to do than snipe and insult and whine.

Like progressives every where and every time.

[Bob from Ohio]

McReynolds wrote a lot of major opinions. Mostly correct.

He averaged 19 a year, that would be one quarter of the whole court's output now! 34 times the number of clerks to help and one half the output.

He did have an impressive list of biases and hatreds though.

[Bob from Ohio]

3 to 4 times, not 34.

[jdgalt1]

Is it just me, or does he look like a zombie?

[Syd Henderson]

I was speculating whether he rose from the grave and has been drinking the blood of virgins ever since.