JAMES CLARK MCREYNOLDS

McReynolds vehemently dissented with the majority view in Perry v. United States that the government's action was wrong but that the plaintiff was not entitled to relief. His remarks were so vituperative that this, and other, comments, did not appear in the formal record of the court. See {616652} for an even worse private insult of FDR. McReynolds was a virulent ant-Semite and believed that all Backs were inferior to whites and Separate but Equal was fine policy for the nation and he was not sure the “equal” was necessary.

The justice so hated the President, that he not only made intemperate insulting remarks in private as this one but he even made intemperate insults in Supreme Court proceedings. See {585241}. McReynolds was an extreme racist and detested every thing that FDR and the New Deal stood for. Although an elderly man when FDR came into office, he lived long enough so that Roosevelt was never able to appoint his replacement. McReynolds was one of the reasons that FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court.

McReynolds vehemently dissented with the majority view in Perry v. United States that the government's action was wrong but that the plaintiff was not entitled to relief. His remarks were so vituperative that this, and other, comments, did not appear in the formal record of the court. See {616652} for an even worse private insult of FDR. McReynolds was a virulent ant-Semite and believed that all Backs were inferior to whites and Separate but Equal was fine policy for the nation and he was not sure the “equal” was necessary.

The justice so hated the President, that he not only made intemperate insulting remarks in private as this one but he even made intemperate insults in Supreme Court proceedings. See {585241}. McReynolds was an extreme racist and detested every thing that FDR and the New Deal stood for. Although an elderly man when FDR came into office, he lived long enough so that Roosevelt was never able to appoint his replacement. McReynolds was one of the reasons that FDR tried to pack the Supreme Court.