![]() ![]() ![]() Here was somebody who was bringing sort of a higher pitch of justice to his consideration of the law. Peter Canellos, Author, "The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero": Well, it started back when I was in law school 30 years ago.Īnd, as you know, it's often a dry affair reading legal books, but Harlan's opinions immediately sort of leapt off the page. What drew you to write about John Harlan? Those visionary opinions led him to be known as the Great Dissenter, which is also the title of a new biography of Harlan by Peter Canellos, the managing editor of Politico. He alone staked out positions that decades later would become the law of the land. In the biggest of those cases, Harlan's vote was the lone dissent. Judy, the name of a Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan may not be widely known these days beyond law students and constitutional scholars.ĭuring his tenure from 1877 to 1911, the High Court enshrined racial segregation in American life. ![]()
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