Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Happy Birthday, Louie

"He has many claims to fame: champion of the New Deal, first Jewish Supreme Court justice, creator of the legal doctrine of privacy. But it is Brandeis’s insistence on injecting facts and real-world analysis into the law that is his most lasting achievement, and one that resounds especially strongly today, when 'reality-based' logic is so embattled."

In The New York Times, Adam Cohen salutes Louis Brandeis, whose birthday was November 13, 1856.

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