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Do you ship it?

William O. Douglas/Felix Frankfurter/Hugo Black/Robert Jackson

I ship it!

Sure, why not/I can see it

Neutral

I don’t ship it

I don’t know them

I don’t know them but they seem cute

Non-rpf shipper button

Voting ended onJul 9

Reason:

“INFAMOUS beef with each other. Black and Douglas threatened to resign if Jackson was appointed Chief Justice. Jackson claimed that Black wanted to wage "open war" against him and thus he had to retaliate by sending in-court conferance documents and conversation to every major news outlet in the COUNTRY. note that he was doing all of this while serving as Chief Prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials. Frankfurter and Black had serious ideological beef, Frankfurter would not stop complaining about it in his diary, arguing that Black was usurping his role as the Ideological Leader of the FDR era court,calling Douglas, Black and a third colleague of theirs the 'Axis' during WORLD WAR II. Douggie, Black, and Murphy (the third guy) are all well known liberal justices. Anyways Black and Frankfurter made up when Black's wife died and Frankfurter drove all the way down to Black's house to comfort him. Douglas and Frankfurter never really made up but they hated each other so much (Douglas would leave the room whenever Frankfurter spoke too long and go and read a newspaper or lie down on the couch - Frankfurter mainly felt disrespected by younger less judicially sophisticated BRATS.) Frankfurter and Jackson weren't close in life - they were more bonded in mutual distaste for Black and Douglas, but after Jackson's death, Jackson's biographer told Frankfurter that Jackson considered talking with him one of the "few respises from an otherwise unhappy situation" (he had depression :(). Frankfurter, however - acc. to Noah Feldman, ""Frankfurter, vital as he was, could not accept this picture of Jackson. He became a one-man police force, scouring the world for any quotation or description, however minor, that cast aspersions on the man who became a closer friend to him in death than he had been in life."