Constitutional Places: Photos of the Justices Inside The United States Supreme Court in 1932 and 1937

October 1st, 2012

Sonja West has these amazing photographs taken (surreptitiously) from inside the Supreme Court in 1932 and 1937.

From left to right, the Justices would be:

Owen Roberts, Pierce Butler, Louis Brandeis, Willis Van Devanter,, CJ Charles Evan Hughes, empty seat (McReynolds), George Sutherland, Harlan Fiske Stone, Benjamin Cardozo (Junior Justice).

Courtesy of Oyez, here is a complete lineup of the Justices on that Court.

 

Chief Justice

 

Associate Justices

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second photograph is from 1937:

From left to right: Owen Roberts, Pierce Butler, Louis Brandeis, Willis Van Devanter,, CJ Charles Evan Hughes, empty seat (McReynolds), George Sutherland, Harlan Fiske Stone, Benjamin Cardozo (Junior Justice).

Here is the complete Court in 1937, following Justice Van Devanter’s retirement, courtesy of Oyez.

 

Chief Justice
Charles E. Hughes

 

 

 

Associate Justices


 

Brandeis had an Einstein-hair-day there. Oh, relatedly, apparently Einstein and Brandeis exchanged letters, though they did not see eye to eye (hair to hair?) about world politics and Israel.