![]() ![]() Today, approval of the Supreme Court is at a historic low. The American people are losing any shared sense they ever had of what the Supreme Court stands for and what it should represent. Instead of tying the seats of our branches of government to any one person’s legacy, the United States has chosen to keep them anonymous, communicating their meaning and purpose through the example of successive generations instead.īut, at least when it comes to the Supreme Court, that’s not working. Why name the building at all, you might ask? After all, the White House and the Capitol haven’t been named after historical figures either. Harlan was a solitary and lonely figure writing for posterity.” As Marshall saw it, according to a colleague, “Earl Warren was writing for a unanimous Supreme Court. Board of Education - the case that overturned Plessy by declaring segregation illegal and that Marshall himself argued - was secondary at best. ![]() Marshall believed that Chief Justice Earl Warren’s 1954 opinion in Brown v. Ferguson, the SCOTUS decision allowing segregation in the United States. Justice Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice on the Supreme Court, is said to have “admired the courage of Harlan more than any justice who has ever sat on the Supreme Court.” In his lowest moments as the lead attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Marshall renewed his courage by reading Harlan’s 1896 dissent in Plessy v. ![]() Harlan is a hero to many, if not most, constitutional lawyers. ![]()
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