{"id":1679957,"date":"2022-10-09T05:05:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679957"},"modified":"2022-10-09T05:06:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:06:20","slug":"supreme-courtier-relitigating-felix-frankfurters-liberal-ish-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-courtier-relitigating-felix-frankfurters-liberal-ish-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Courtier: Relitigating Felix Frankfurter\u2019s Liberal-ish Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-courtier-relitigating-felix-frankfurters-liberal-ish-legacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>At the very first Federalist Society conference, Antonin Scalia offered a word of caution. For decades, conservatives had criticized the federal government, particularly Congress and the Supreme Court. &#8220;Unfortunately,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chicagounbound.uchicago.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=11935&amp;context=journal_articles\">he told the assembled students in 1982<\/a>, &#8220;a tactic employed for half a century tends to develop into a philosophy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a recurring theme in American constitutional history. A political coalition bristles at the other side\u2019s use of an institution for so long that eventually it develops a constitutional case against the institution itself. In 1982, conservative lawyers\u2019 rightful criticism of the New Deal and Roe v. Wade risked leading them to mistakenly adopt a sweeping anti-federal philosophy. A generation earlier, conservatives\u2019 arguments against FDR led them to philosophize a far-too-narrow view of the presidency itself.<\/p>\n<p>Or consider, for that matter, the early 20th-century progressives\u2019 arguments against the Supreme Court. In the &#8220;Lochner Era,&#8221; named for the case striking down New York\u2019s bakery regulations, the Court held many progressive reforms unconstitutional under a broad view of economic liberty. Soon progressives made limiting the courts a central plank of their political platform; eventually progressive lawyers formulated a constitutional theory for strictly limiting\u2014nearly eliminating\u2014the judicial power itself.<\/p>\n<p>Thus progressives\u2019 anti-judicial tactic became a philosophy\u2014and by midcentury, their top philosophizer was Justice Felix Frankfurter. Inspired by President Theodore Roosevelt, and then by Justices Louis Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Frankfurter played a central role in both the progressive political movement and its constitutional doctrines. When FDR appointed him to the Court in 1939, he helped to complete Democrats\u2019 transformation of the federal judiciary. Yet by midcentury, when the Supreme Court itself became a tool for further progressive reforms, Frankfurter found himself significantly out of step with the new left. When he retired in 1962, just three years before his death, he was seen\u2014scorned, even\u2014as the Court\u2019s most &#8220;conservative&#8221; justice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The standard story about Frankfurter is that he struggled to fill the seat once held by Holmes,&#8221; writes Brad Snyder, a Georgetown law professor. &#8220;Scholars have portrayed Frankfurter as a judicial failure, as a liberal lawyer turned conservative justice, and as the Warren Court\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the very first Federalist Society conference, Antonin Scalia offered a word of caution. For decades, conservatives had criticized the federal government, particularly Congress and the Supreme Court. &#8220;Unfortunately,&#8221; he told the assembled students in 1982, &#8220;a tactic employed for half a century tends to develop into a philosophy.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Supreme Courtier: Relitigating Felix Frankfurter\u2019s Liberal-ish Legacy appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":1898470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}