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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (/ ˈ b r æ n d aɪ s /; November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was an American lawyer who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.
Louis Brandeis (born Nov. 13, 1856, Louisville, Ky., U.S.—died Oct. 5, 1941, Washington, D.C.) was a lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1916–39) who was the first Jew to sit on the high court.
Jan 27, 2016 · It is one of the ironies of history that a hundred years ago, a gifted man such as Louis Brandeis would be judged deficient because he was a son of immigrants and a member of a different faith.
Louis Brandeis was nominated to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson on January 28, 1916, after the death in office of Joseph Rucker Lamar created a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Brandeis was an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson on policy, and influenced Wilsons’s New Freedom economic doctrine. He published two books in 1914, Other People’s Money and Business–A Profession , in which he argued in favor of trade union rights and against big business.
Jun 7, 2016 · We're going to look at the Supreme Court a hundred years ago when Louis Brandeis became the first Jewish justice. And then we'll look at the court today and how it's been functioning with eight...
With the recent appointment of the first Latina to the American Supreme Court, it is worth remembering the first Jewish Justice, Louis D. Brandeis, who was appointed by President Wilson in 1916. Like with Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Brandeis’ appointment was a great symbol of “arrival.”
Louis Brandeis was nominated by President Woodrow Wilson to fill Justice Hugo Black‘s seat on the Supreme Court of the United States on January 28, 1916. After an unprecedented four-month long confirmation process which was described as a “kind of inquisition”, Brandeis became the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court.
Dec 1, 2010 · To attempt a biography of Louis Brandeis is to confront a herculean challenge, for Brandeis was a central figure in many of the major developments that transformed the United States in the long, critical age from Reconstruction to World War II.
Historical profiles documenting the personal background, plus nomination and confirmation dates of previous associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court: Louis D. Brandeis.
