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Finally got a chance to reed the Alito Note, and
boy, the thing that really jumps out is how insufferable (and, of course,
self-righteous) Frankfurter was. Some of you may have seen this
correspondence previously, but if you haven't, take a look at FF's letter to
Stanley Reed in footnote 104 (when Reed was preparing his sole dissent in
McCollum), and, especially, at FF's letter to Frank Murphy in
footnote 40 (when Murphy, the Court's only Catholic, was agonizing about
being the swing vote in Everson and FF was trying to cajole him to vote
against the busing plan). They are remarkable letters, virtually
unimaginable today. I can't possibly do them justice -- just read
them. I will say this: It's not surprising that Murphy and Reed
withstood Frankfurter's attempts to "persude" them
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