His opponents feared he would bring his radical new ideas to the court. President Woodrow Wilson, like Louis Brandeis, distrusted corporate bigness. He was the strongest supporter of antitrust laws among the three men who ran for president in —himself, Theodore Roosevelt and President William Howard Taft.
His campaign on behalf of Wilson took some of the progressive vote from Roosevelt and helped usher Wilson into the White House. Several years later, as Wilson looked toward reelection, he needed to shore up his progressive credentials. He probably had an inkling of the swift and furious response his nomination would inspire. In , with a reputation as a brilliant and promising young corporate lawyer, Brandeis had accepted an invitation to spend a weekend at the summer home of Brahmin financier Henry Lee Higginson.
A year later, Mrs. But Higginson changed his views about Louis Brandeis after he fought J. In , Higginson from behind the scenes financed the battle against the Brandeis nomination to the Supreme Court. Harvard President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, an open anti-Semite, circulated a petition to oppose the Brandeis nomination. Fifty-five influential people signed it with Brahmin last names like Gardner, Peabody and Adams, as in Charles Francis. Seven of the 16 presidents of the American Bar Association signed a letter that called Brandeis unfit.
It took four months of charges and countercharges for Brandeis to win the nomination. He did not defend himself personally—not the custom of the time.
His enemies excoriated him. His opponents charged him with unethical behavior. One detractor accused him of breach of faith as counsel to the Interstate Commerce Commission because he supported a big rate increase for the railroads. The Rev. Ironically, Brandeis did not actively practice his religion. He did not belong to a synagogue, he celebrated Christmas and he enjoyed ham.
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