Dana El-Kurd
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 30 May
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Perhaps Wisdom's most significant opinion came with the 1968 United States v. Jefferson case, which blocked states from avoiding compliance with the Brown v. Board of Education decision by setting up so-called, quote, school choice plans in which parents allegedly freely chose to send their children to segregated schools.
Coining a phrase that would later ignite fierce white backlash against civil rights north and south, Wisdom said school systems needed to move beyond ostensibly not discriminating and to take, quote, affirmative action to bring about a unitary nonracial system.
That phrase would provide a legal foundation for school busing as a means of genuinely integrating schools.
and also introduced the concept of affirmative action, hiring practices, and other stubborn aspects of racial exclusion.
The Fifth Circuit's record of judicial progressivism continued through the 1970s.
A 1976 decision by the Fifth Circuit, for instance, required public colleges and universities in Texas to recognize gay student organizations.
Meanwhile, moderate Republicans tried to persuade Richard Nixon to nominate Wisdom for the United States Supreme Court.
However, Attorney General John Mitchell, who later went to prison for his role in the Watergate scandal, squashed the idea.
He complained that the judge was a damn left-winger who would supposedly be as bad as the famously liberal Chief Justice Warren.
President Clinton would give Wisdom the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993.
Wisdom died six years later.
If he miraculously returned, Wisdom would not recognize the appeals court that he spent so much of his life serving.
We'll talk about the transformation of the Fifth Circuit of Appeals, the extreme and disturbing decisions it has made since the start of the Trump era, and the career of one of that court's most infamous judges when we come back from our hopefully less infamous sponsors.
In 1981, the federal judiciary was reorganized.
The Fifth Circuit Court now heard appeals only from Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
A new Eleventh Circuit Court now hears cases from Alabama, Georgia, and Florida.
We should provide a hopefully brief civics lesson here.
The Fifth Court consists of 17 active judges and nine senior judges.
When a side loses a case in a federal district court, they can appeal to a circuit court where the case is heard by a three-judge panel.
In some cases, if one side disagrees with the judgment of the panel, they may appeal the decision to the full judicial court.
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