This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism

1898—William Orville Douglas, who, alas, will become the longest-serving justice in Supreme Court history, is born in the town of Maine in Minnesota. (See This Day entry for April 4, 1939, for Judge Richard A. Posner’s colorful summary of Douglas’s life and career.)

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Ed Whelan

Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—October 16

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