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Felix Frankfurter Quotes about Judging

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It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation.

Felix Frankfurter
Errors, Giving, Judging
"Craig v. Harney, 331 U.S. 367". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. May 19, 1947.

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate.

Felix Frankfurter
Writing, Judging, Clean
"The Commerce Clause under Marshall, Taney, and Waite". Book by Felix Frankfurter, 1937.

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

Felix Frankfurter
Men, Judging, Ignorant
"Watts v. Indiana, 338 U.S. 49". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 27, 1949.

One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

Felix Frankfurter
Judging, Catholic, Minorities
West Virginia State Bd. of Educ. v. Barnette (dissenting opinion) (1943)

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