Jad Abumrad

Future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

The editors of the New Republic magazine.

Herbert Crowley and Walter Lippmann.

This young socialist named Harold Lasky, who at the age of 24 was already teaching at Harvard.

It was a townhouse, like a little like clubhouse for like young progressives.

And he would like play cards with them.

So it's like a kind of a funny pairing, like this nearly 80 year old guy, like hanging out with these like young whippersnapper 20 somethings and like, yeah, just like laying down truth bombs.

He loved debate.

And as he got older, he found himself not really having anyone to do that with anymore.

Like the sort of intellectual friends that he had who were his contemporaries.

The other members of the Supreme Court, he didn't really care for.

They would write him fan letters and they would write articles about him in magazines.

They actually they got so close that when it was Holmes's surprise 75th birthday party, his wife Fanny snuck a bunch of them in through the cellar for the for the birthday party.

Great question.

They were not fans.

So in May of that year, so remember March is when he has those first opinions.

In May, they publish an article in the New Republic criticizing his opinion in the Debs case.

which again was one of those earlier three cases.

So they're knocking him publicly.

Essentially saying, you know, again, look, there were lives on the line.