Felix Frankfurter: "The Most Dangerous Man" in Supreme Court History? w/ Brad Snyder

Felix Frankfurter: "The Most Dangerous Man" in Supreme Court History? w/ Brad Snyder

Recorded on the day that the Supreme Court issued its Allen v. Milligan decision, Brad Snyder, Professor of Law at Georgetown University, joins the podcast to discuss his book "Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment" and explains how the Supreme Court has *always* been "small c" conservative, Justice Frankfurter's commitment to judicial restraint, and also explains why J. Edgar Hoover once called Felix Frankfurter "the most dangerous man in America." After decades of hindsight, what is the proper way to view the complicated legacy of Justice Frankfurter--and how does his service compare and contrast to current Supreme Court justices?

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