Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967

8/29/1967: Justice Neil Gorsuch's birthday.

Justice Neil Gorsuch

 

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[Dan Schiavetta]

Keyes v. Denver School District No. 1, 396 U.S. 1215 (decided August 29, 1969): Brennan vacates Circuit Court’s stay of desegregation plan; Circuit Court’s rationale was to allow time to build public support for plan, but that is not a good enough reason (Denver went through years of litigation with various plans, finally ending in 1991)

[JoeFromtheBronx]

James Reynolds was confirmed OTD in 1914.

President Wilson was heard to say, "Ha! Now, that asshole is THEIR problem."

BTW, inspired by a recent post, I watched "The Best Man." I enjoyed it. Penny Singleton (Blondie and the voice of Jane Jetson) supposedly had a small role, but the footage was cut.

Frankfurter retired on 8/28/62 to add to yesterday.

Happy Birthday, Neil.

[JoeFromtheBronx]

The “former guy” in the movie at one point noted:

“We have had some bad old customs in this country. And one of them was that a Jew or a Negro or a Catholic, couldn’t get to be President. Well, a Catholic can now be elected President. And someday we’re going to have a Jewish President and we’re going to have Negro President. Then, when all the minorities have been heard from, we’re going to do something for the downtrodden majority of this country – and I mean the ladies!”

There was a film in 1964 entitled “Kisses for My President” with Fred MacMurray as the husband of the first woman president. She resigns when she finds out she is pregnant.

[F.D. Wolf]

I also recently watched The Best Man (1964), a movie I had previously never heard of, presumably inspired by the same post. I too thought it was pretty good.

Mainly concerning the battle between the two leading candidates at a political convention, one interesting bit was when one of them threatens to use information against the other that he had undergone psychiatric treatment for a nervous breakdown. This would echo in real life during the 1972 presidential campaign when Democratic nominee George McGovern would drop his initial choice for VP, Thomas Eagleton, after revelations that Eagleton had undergone treatment for clinical depression that had included electroshock therapy.

[Syd Henderson]

Dropping Eagleton probably turned a bad loss for McGovern into a historic loss.

[Syd Henderson]

That was James McReynolds, but I've heard the same quote from Wilson.

[JoeFromtheBronx]

Yes. McReynolds.