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Article: The World of Benjamin Cardozo: Personal Values and the Judicial Process.
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- Insight on the News
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- February 16, 1998
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Benjamin was one of the most innovative legal thinkers to earn a seat on the Supreme Court, but he remains an oddly enigmatic figure -- a justice whose legacy has yet to be determined.
In February 1932, President Herbert Hoover made one of his most interesting judicial appointments. After 30 years, Oliver Wendell Holmes had given up his seat on the Supreme Court, and Hoover needed an eminent candidate to take his place.
Hoover rose to the occasion in picking Benjamin Cardozo -- a New York state judge, Sephardic Jew, lifelong bachelor and avid reader of Latin and Greek. At the time of his appointment, Cardozo was considered something of a saint, admired ...