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Today in Supreme Court History: January 20, 1953
1/20/1953: President Eisenhower takes the inaugural oath on January 20. He would make five appointments to the Supreme Court: Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Justices John Marshall Harlan II, William J. Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker, and Potter Stewart.

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Justice Jackson appears to have started a practice of dissenting from prohibition of noncriminal IFP filing for imprisoned "frivolous" litigants. She has a point - pro se, IFP cases do sometimes present meritorious issues. Holt v. Hobbs is one example; that religious freedom case was filed, pro se and IFP, by a prisoner.