March 19, 2021

ICYMI: Barrett on A New CJ in the Sight of His Predecessor: Stone and Hughes, Summer 1941 @JohnQBarrett @StJohnsLaw

ICYMI: John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law; Robert H. Jackson Center, has published A New Chief Justice in the Sight of His Predecessor: Stone and Hughes, Summer 1941 at 42 Journal of Supreme Court History 202 (2017). Here is the abstract.
Most Chief Justices of the United States have died in office. And few served initially as an Associate Justice. Thus after the founding period, only two Chiefs—Charles Evans Hughes and Warren E. Burger—ever saw an Associate Justice colleague be appointed to succeed him as Chief Justice. This article chronicles that history. It also describes the rare instance in Summer 1941 of such a succession, and the telegrams and letters that Chief Justice Hughes and his colleague Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone exchanged as Hughes retired and Stone was appointed to be his successor.


Download the article from SSRN at the link. 

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