Salt of the earth, conscience of the court : the story of Justice Wiley Rutledge
Justice Wiley Rutledge (1894-1949), a member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, was FDR's last appointee to the Supreme Court, where he was a leading liberal voice on the bench. In this readable and first full biography of Rutledge, Judge Ferren addresses both his life and judicial decision-making, his principled approach to liberal judicial activism, his stand on the first Japanese war crimes trial, and other civil libertarian matters where Rutledge made his mark
Print Book, English, ©2004
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2004
Biography
xii, 577 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780807828663, 0807828661
53993053
Kentucky and Tennessee
Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico
Colorado
St. Louis : high standards and a "big heart"
St. Louis : a public liberal
Legal philosophy
Iowa City : innovation and influence
Iowa City : support for minorities, legal aid, and court-packing
Roosevelt's first court vacancies : Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo
The Brandeis vacancy
Court of Appeals years : adjustment and impending World War
Court of Appeals years : judicial approach and outside interests
The Byrnes vacancy
The new justice
Denaturalized citizenship, West Coast curfew, and Japanese-American internment
First Amendment freedoms
Acrimony in the court
The Selective Service, price control, and agency review
War crimes and military commissions
A new chief, Jackson's blast from Nuremberg, and the striking mine workers
A more seasoned justice, sharp divides over criminal procedure
State courts, the Bill of Rights, and access to federal courts
The commerce clause and equal protection
The Justice's world view
Last term
Last days : the man and the Justice remembered