‘The Greatest Talker of His Time’
Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?
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Felix Frankfurter was an eloquent liberal champion of judicial restraint. Is it time for a reappraisal?
It came out in 1968—yet little has changed since the Kerner Commission denounced “white racism.”