“[Louis Brandeis] at the age of 57 decided to become the head of the American Zionist movement was more influential than anyone else in the 20th century in persuading Woodrow Wilson to recognize a Jewish homeland in Palestine.” AgeCenturyMovementDecided20th CenturyPalestineInfluentialHomelandWilsonZionistPersuadingLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I think even though the court is moving toward trying to translate the Constitution into a digital age, there was that wonderful unanimous decision that Chief Justice Roberts wrote saying you can't search a cellphone on arrest without a warrant.” ThinkingTryingAgeMovingJusticeDecisionWonderfulConstitutionCourtChiefsDigitalTranslateWarrantsDigital AgeCellphoneChief Justice Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I think [Louis] Brandeis challenges all of the current justices. As he said, "If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold." You have to take the values that the framers were concerned about and translate them into this new age.” IfsThinkingMindSaidReasonLightAgeValuesChallengesJusticeConcernedCurrentsGuidesTranslateNew AgeFramersLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“I'd say that [Louis] Brandeis practiced a kind of a "living originalism," to use the title of Jack Balkin's great book. He said you start with the paradigm case, which in the case of the Fourth Amendment was these general warrants or writs of assistance, but you define it at a level of abstraction that you can take it into our age and make it our own.” KindSaidBookUseAgeLevelsCasesTitlesAmendmentsFourthAssistanceAbstractionParadigmGreat BookWarrantsFourth AmendmentLouis BrandeisWrits Of Assistance Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“For [Louis] Brandeis, it's not a technical question of channeling what would James Madison say. It's how do we take these inherent human natural rights of liberty and translate them into an age of new technolog” HumansAgeNaturalLibertyRightsInherentTranslateChannelingMadisonNatural RightsLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.” PeopleNeedsHomeAgeLibertyAmountProtectCognitiveFraming Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“For [Louis] Brandeis, you know, ethnicity and background are much less important than facts and reason. And he believes that far from wanting to efface our diversity of perspectives, we have to embrace it because that makes us more American, not less. In that sense, he's incredibly modern in an age of cultural pluralism. And it is disappointing for just the reasons you say that not everyone has embraced his pluralistic vision.” KnowsBelieveImportantReasonFactsAgeVisionModernPerspectiveDiversityEmbraceBackgroundsDisappointingEthnicityPluralismLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
