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Judicial Self-Restraint: Political Questions And Malapportionment, Stephen R. Mitchell
Judicial Self-Restraint: Political Questions And Malapportionment, Stephen R. Mitchell
Washington Law Review
Justice Felix Frankfurter, dissenting in the Tennessee Reapportionment Case, characterized the holding of that decision as "a massive repudiation of the experience of our whole past." Whether or not this is true we may presently discover, but in the meanwhile Baker v. Carr may safely be described as a truly momentous constitutional decision. Without wishing to labor the obvious, legislative apportionment can be a violently partisan problem which, in the normal course of things, we might expect the Court to bend every effort to avoid. It is an area in which judicial standards are elusive and in which judicial remedies …
Introduction—A Tribute To Justice Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren
Introduction—A Tribute To Justice Douglas, Chief Justice Earl Warren
Washington Law Review
The decision of the University of Washington Law Review to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mr. Justice Douglas on the Supreme Court of the United States is doubly appropriate. In the first place, his achievements during that important period of his life are in all respects worthy of review and contemplation. Secondly, it is fitting that a University of the great Northwest should make the synthesis at this midway stage of his brilliant judicial career because he is as much a Westerner in the old tradition as is to be found in public life today. Born in the Midwest, reared …