One is entitled to say without qualification that the corre… - Felix Frankfurter

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One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero.

Felix Frankfurter

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Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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A court which yields to the popular will thereby licenses itself to practice despotism, for there can be no assurance that it will not on another occasion indulge its own will.

The indispensable judicial requisite is intellectual humility.

All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

One is entitled to say without qualification that the correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the Supreme Court is zero. - Felix Frankfurter

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