Today marks the sixty-eighth anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s May 17, 1954, decisions in Brown v. Board of Education and its companion cases. Those decisions are among the most important legal events in U.S. history. They also are, as examples of the U.S. government standing up for the equality that is the U.S. … Continue reading The American Stance of Brown v. Board of Education
Today marks the seventieth anniversary of the United States Supreme Court’s May 17, 1954, decisions in Brown v. Board of Education and its companion cases. In Brown, et al., the Supreme Court—Chief Justice Earl Warren and eight Associate Justices, including Robert H. Jackson—held unanimously that government racial segregation of school children was, henceforth, barred by … Continue reading Now Hear Brown
During the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1952-1953 term, young lawyer Donald Cronson, a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, was one of Justice Robert H. Jackson’s two law clerks. (Jackson’s other clerk was another young lawyer, William Rehnquist of Milwaukee, a graduate of Stanford Law School.) The first months of that Court term were … Continue reading A Non-Urgent Holiday Season (1952)
In the history of the Supreme Court of the United States, two people have held the title “Justice Jackson.” Soon, wonderfully, there will be the third. The first Justice Jackson—19th century Jackson—was Howell Edmunds Jackson, of Tennessee. He was commissioned an associate justice in 1893, when he was sixty years old. He soon became ill … Continue reading Best Wishes to Judge, Soon Justice, Jackson!
