Posted: 8/14/2014
Perhaps a timely quote:
“It is not only under Nazi rule that police excesses are inimical to freedom. It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. It is too easy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.
Davis v. United States, 328 U.S. 582, 597 (1946).” (Source; emphasis added) (Credit)
My View On Felix Frankfurter
He could have been way too much a progressive! According to Wikipedia, he was a close advisor to one of the worst U.S. Presidents of the 20th century, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I need to do more research on him.
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