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Frankfurter Departure Shifts Supreme Court Balance
Barry Schweid outlines how Felix Frankfurter’s strokes ended a 23 year liberal bloc led by him and Whittaker and how the Warren Court shifted as Goldberg and later Fortas and Marshall joined, creating a broader liberal majority. The piece notes key 5 to 4 decisions and the evolving court dynamics through 1969.
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Barry Schweid
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Felix Frankfurter
Justice Frankfurter
Supreme Court
Warren Court
Frankfurter
Hart Warren
Warren
Hugo L. Black
William O. Douglas
William J. Brennan Jr
Harvard
Black- Douglas
Black
Douglas
Brennan
John Marshall Harlan
Charles Evans Whittaker
Tom C. Clark
Potter Stewart
Communist Party
Whittaker
Clark
Harlan
Stewart
Arthur J. Goldberg
Kennedy
NAACP
Goldberg
Byron R. White
Abe Fortas
Espe
Connecticut
Ramsey
Lyndon Johnson
Thurgood Marshall
U.S
Marshall
White
Nixon
Fortas
Warren E. Burger
Senate
Clement F. Haynsworth