Who was the greatest justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (20th Century)

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: Who was the greatest justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (20th Century)

I've decided to leave off Chief Justices from this poll. The only exception is Harlan F. Stone who served 16 years as an Associate Justice before being elevated to CJ and serving in that capacity for an additonal five years.

[WI_DEM]

1. It comes down to Black and Douglas for me with maybe a

slight edge towards Hugo.

[NewJeffCT]

2. William Brennan?

One of the last liberals...

[WI_DEM]

3. You're right

A great Justice.

[terrya]

4. I second Brennan.

Yes...a tireless liberal. A good, kind man and a champion of liberalism.

[Just Me]

5. It required ALL of them to bring us forward.

It requires ALL of us to go forward.

I HATE polls,...THEY SUCK!!!!

[WI_DEM]

7. thanks for your opinion.

that is what this poll is all about.

[gollygee]

6. I've got a William O. Douglas quote in my siggie so I guess

my vote is with him.

[Horse with no Name]

8. Earl Warren

Even though he was a pub.
"Warren was not antigovernment, but he believed that the Constitution prohibited the government from acting unfairly against the individual. In taking this position, he carved out a powerful position for the Court as a protector of civil rights and civil liberties."

After I voted I noticed you said you left out CJ's.
Sorry.

[WI_DEM]

9. Without a doubt the greatest CJ of the 20th Century, maybe

the greatest ever.

[trotsky]

10. Another (uncounted) vote for Warren.

When looking at the history of the 20th century, he clearly stands out as possibly THE most influential justice.

[Poor Richard Lex]

11. You forgot Earl Warren

how could you forget him?

[indepat]

12. Robert H. Jackson who enunciated forevermore what constitutes war crimes

while on leave from the SC to be the chief allied prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. A brilliant man who had previously served as Attorney General of the United States and was a Roosevelt favorite back in 1937 to be the democratic nominee for the presidency in 1940, but approaching war clouds changed all that.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. Not Holmes. He OK'd state-sponsored sterilization of citizens in Bell v.

Buck.

[ironflange]

14. Clarence Thomas

Just kidding!