justice cardozo
Updated 10:53: Judge Sotomayor's identification of Justice Cardozo as the justice with whom she most identifies seems a little odd because Justice Cardozo only spent 6 years on the Supreme Court and made his greatest mark on the law as Let us not forget that wise men like Oliver Wendell Holmes and Justice Cardozo voted on cases which upheld both sex and race discrimination in our society. Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender As Justice Cardozo reminds us, you are not free to act as "a knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of [your] own ideal of beauty or of goodness," yet, he concluded, "[w]ide enough in all conscience is the field of discretion that