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chained_bear commented on the word the felt necessities of the time
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Seen in Newsweek most recently, actually: "Supreme Court justices... have a freer hand than judges on the federal court of appeals. While they are supposed to respect the slow evolution of the law, they have more discretion than lower-court judges to express personal views, to vote their consciences, to make the law fit what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. called 'the felt necessities of the time.'" (July 20, 2009)
July 22, 2009