From an article on CNN.com re: the likelihood of Bush appointing new justices to the Supreme Court, and Sen. Specter:
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"I'm saying we don't have anybody of the status of Oliver Wendell Holmes or Louis Brandeis or a (Benjamin) Cardozo or (Thurgood) Marshall," he said. "That we have a court which they're graduates from Courts of Appeals from the District of Columbia, basically, some other Circuit Courts of Appeals, and I think we could use a Holmes or a Brandeis."
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Is it just me, or did the reporter cite the wrong Marshall? I would guess that Specter meant John Marshall. Although Thurgood was a legendary lawyer and player in the civil rights movement, most of the relevant books I recall reading said he was very much a mediocre Supreme.
Yes, i am very much bored today, thanks for asking.
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