“Words are clumsy tools, and it is very easy, not only for the legislator, but for the judge, to fall into traps of his own making.”

About Felix Frankfurter

Jurist • American

Felix Frankfurter was an Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1939 to 1962. A prominent advocate of judicial restraint, he...