I have to write a paper on my “favorite” Supreme Court judge, which I obviously don’t have. So, does anyone know a good judge I could write about? Edit: A couple of people suggested Thurgood Marshall, who looks like a good option. The idea of picking a terrible judge to write about sounds like fun, but I’m not sure how effective arguing that the Supreme Court is bad because of one bad judge would be. I prefer to write about stuff I like over stuff I hate anyways. Thanks comrades!
Thurgood Marshall
If it’s current, Sotomayor is your only option.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/sonia-sotomayor-supreme-court-injustice-body-cavity-dissent.html (CW: police violence) https://www.alternet.org/2016/06/justice-sotomayor-slams-us-police-state-scathing-dissent/
If dead justices count, yeah, Thurgood Marshall. Another option is John Marshall Harlan (not to be confused with his grandson of the same name, also a Supreme Court justice who was named after another Supreme Court justice), who was the only dissenter in Plessy v. Ferguson.
You could pick the worst judge to force the person grading the paper to learn about them.
There was that 1920s guy appointed by woodrow wilson who refused to be seated in the same room with the first Jewish justice. The name “Oliver Wendell Holmes” comes to mind but this could be complete bullshit
James Clark McReynolds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Clark_McReynolds#Personality_and_conflicts
Thank you. Oliver Wendell Holmes was the “free speech advocate” dumb bitch who said that protesting the WWI draft was the same as shouting “fire in a crowded theater” when it comes to free speech
“Chuddy McHitler is my favourite supreme court judge because he like no one else exposed the rotten core of the bourgeois state”
“Hugo Black is my favorite Supreme Court Justice because although he was in the Ku Klux Klan, he’s the only Justice we know of who quit the Ku Klux Klan.”
OP, this is absolutely the way to write this paper. it’ll be way better too because you’ll have fun with it.
It is, provided the instructor is at least somewhat cool. If it’s an asshole teacher it’s probably not worth it.
Still worth it. School is a joke. Force the teacher to take a stand. Heighten the contradictions. Yes, I am a teacher. One time, my lib coworker stopped a student from making a report about his favorite revolutionary, Osama bin Laden
Does it have to be a US American one?
