There Have Been Three Justice Jacksons
In A Republic, Justice Gorsuch recounts a story told by his former boss, Justice White:
THESE DAYS I SOMETIMES find myself thinking back a quarter century to a day when, as a law clerk, I was walking with my boss, Justice Byron White, along the ground-floor hallway of the Supreme Court. As we passed portrait after portrait of former justices, he asked me how many of them I could name. As much as I wanted to impress the boss, I admitted the answer was about half. The justice surprised me when he said, “Me too. We’ll all be forgotten soon enough.”
Justice White was quite right.
During a recent event, Justice Kavanaugh referred to Justice Robert Jackson, and added, “or as we like to refer to him, the first Justice Jackson.” Eek.
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