"How, then," demanded Justice Robert H. Jackson, in a dissenting opinion last week, "can the Court today hold it a 'high constitutional privilege' to go to homes, including those of devout Catholics on Palm Sunday morning, and thrust upon them literature calling their church a 'whore' and their faith a 'racket'?"
This eminently reasonable question had already been answered a few minutes before. In a series of majority opinions, the U.S. Supreme Court redeemed itself from the obloquy which fell upon it last year after a decision written by Justice Stanley Reed, which...
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