Louis Brandeis: Lawyer, Activist, Supreme Court Justice, with Richard Michelson
ENGLISH CORNER, CON LINDA JIMÉNEZ – This week’s trivia question: What was a “Brandeis brief”?
Louis Brandeis was the first Jew to serve as a Justice on the Supreme Court in the United States. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1856 to parents who had immigrated there from Germany. He was a progressive and public advocate and became known as “the people’s lawyer”. Brandeis was ahead of his time on many issues, and notably believed that the Constitution must be flexible enough to deal with any present-day and future situations that might arise. He was nominated to the Supreme Court by…
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