[dirtboy]

ping

[prognostigaator]

long read bump

[Dog Gone]

This all comes as news to me. Fascinating information.

Thanks for the ping.

[okie01]

Thanks for the ping.

Justice William O. Douglas holds the honor of being the subject of the first article that I independently recognized as what is now called a "puff piece".

In the mid-fifties, Collier's (I believe it was) published a fawning essay on Douglas, including 4C photos of him pondering the law in his chambers and as a hunter in the field (posed next to a downed moose). The overall effect was entirely unbelievable, so that one instinctively recognized it as full of exaggeration and (probably) misrepresentations and untruths.

At 14-or-so, one isn't overly concerned about politics. But I don't believe I ever took Douglas seriously from that point forward...

[Abundy]

Thanks for the ping...his personality doesn't surprise me given the amount of respect he had for precedent, the Constitution and traditional principles of interpretation.