Con Law Judges I

John Marshall

1801-1835: Chief Justice

Federalist

Cases:

• Marbury v. Madison (judicial review)

• Barron v. Baltimore (1833)

• McCulloch v. Maryland

Chief Justice Warren

1953-1969 (Eisenhower)

Expanded civil rights, voting rights, judicial activism, LIBERAL!

Cases:

• Brown v. Board (1954)

• Lee Optical (1955)

• Katzenbach (1964)

• NYT v. Sullivan (1964)

• Griswold (1965)

• Loving v. Virginia (1968)

• Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

Chief Justice Burger

1969-1986 (Nixon)

Conservative, separation of powers

Cases:

• Miller v. California (1973)

• Paris Adult Theatre (1973)

Justice Jackson

1941-1954 (FDR)

Cases:

• Korematsu dissent(1945)

• Barnette (1943)

Rejected broad expansion of 14th Amendment

Justice Blackmun

1970-1994 (Nixon)

Cases:

• Roe v. Wade (1973)

Constitutional right to privacy

conservative, but became more liberal

Justice Thurgood Marshall

1967-1991 (LBJ)

Cases:

liberal supporter of individual rights

Justice Brennan

1957-1990 (Eisenhower)

Cases:

• Concurrence Poe v. Ullman (1961)

• NYT v. Sullivan (1964)

• Frontiero (1973)

• Craig v. Boren (1976)

• Texas v. Johnson (1989)

liberal, advocated for individual rights

Justice Peckham

1896-1909 (Cleveland)

Cases:

• part of majority in Plessy v. Furgeson (1896)

• Lochner (1905)

anti-federalist, the “Lochnerizer”; individual economic rights

Justice Harlan

1955-1971 (Eisenhower)

Cases:

• Dissent: there is a right to privacy, statute violates te 14th Amendment Poe v. Ullman (1961)

• Concurrence in Griswold (1965); Due Process in 14th A. independently supports right to privacy without needing to infer it from the BoRs

• Cohen v. CA (1971)

conservative

Justice Black

1937-1971 (FDR)

Cases:

• wrote majority in Korematsu (1945)

• dissent in Adamson v. California (1947): advocates for total incorporation

• voted with majority Brown v. Board (1954)

• Tinker (1969) dissent

• dissented in Griswold (1965) because privacy is not textual right

Positivisst

total incorporation

textualist

Chief Justice Rehnquist

1972-1986 (Nixon) and 1986-2005 (Reagan)

Cases:

• Moose Lodge (1972)

• Cruzan (1990)

• Boy Scouts v. Dale (2000)

Anti-federalist, conservative

Justice Frankfurter

1939-1962 (FDR)

Cases:

• wrote majority: Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940)

• Concurrence: Korematsu (1945)

• Dissent: Dennis v. US (1951): ridicules Carolene Products FN 4

• wrote: majority Beauharnais v. Illinoise (1952)

• wrote majority Poe v. Ullman (1961)

• dissent: Baker v. Carr (1962)

Judicial restraint, historical analysis

Justice Holmes

1902-1932 (Teddy Roosevelt)

Cases:

• wrote majority Schneck v. US (1919): clear and present danger

• wrote majority Buck v. Bell (1927): sterilize mentally disabled

Judicial restraint

Justice Holmes II

1877-1911 (Hayes)

Cases:

• lone dissent in Plessy (1896)

• Dissent in Lochner (1905): state has power to regulate labor, health, and safety

More progressive than colleauges

Justice Brandeis

1916-1939 (Woodrow Wilson)

Case:

• Concurrence: Whitney (1927): clear and present danger

• Erie RR (1938)

Brandeis Brief: incorporated social science into legal arguments

individual privacy rights

Justice Douglas

1939-1974 (FDR)

Cases:

• wrote majority Skinner v. Oklahoma (1942)

• wrote majority Lee Optical (1955)

• Dissent in Poe v. Ullman (1961)

• wrote majority Griswold (1965)

• wrote majority: Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966)

natural rights limit government

pro civil liberties

Justice Kennedy

1988-2018 (Reagan)

Cases:

• Lee v. Weisman (1992)

• wrote plurality opinion with O’Connor & Souter in PP v. Casey (1992)

  • changed his mind after and wanted to reaffirm Roe

• Romer v. Evans (1996)

• Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

• Fisher v. University of Texas (2013)

• Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

“swing Justice”, but leaned conservative

Grew up around gay people so surprisingly more chill abt it #ally?