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Scorpions The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices

Noah Feldman

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important inte...

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This book was mentioned as being about the 1940s court and how much the justices detested each other, which provided a context for comparison with the current court dynamics.

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I interviewed Noah Feldman for the piece and I had also I also had talked to Rich Lazarus both from Harvard but Noah Feldman wrote the book Scorpions about the 1940s court and how much these people de...

— Episode: Putting the Tea in Totenberg

Episode: Putting the Tea in Totenberg

This book was mentioned as being about the 1940s court and how much the justices detested each other, which provided a context for comparison with the current court dynamics.

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I interviewed Noah Feldman for the piece and I had also I also had talked to Rich Lazarus both from Harvard but Noah Feldman wrote the book Scorpions about the 1940s court and how much these people detested each other is nothing like this they were quantum leaps ahead of what this is they were referred to as nine scorpions in a bottle because they couldn't get along

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