For a century every contest with the Supreme Court has ende… - Robert H. Jackson

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For a century every contest with the Supreme Court has ended in evading the basic inconsistency between popular government and judicial supremacy.

Robert H. Jackson

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Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was United States Solicitor General (1938–1940), United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He is the only person in United States history to have held all three of those offices. He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.

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Native Name: Robert Jackson

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