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Kentucky and Tennessee -- Wisconsin, Indiana, North Carolina, New Mexico -- Colorado -- St. Louis : high standards and a "big Heart" -- St. Louis : a public liberal -- Legal philosophy -- Iowa city : innovation and influence -- Iowa city : support for minorities, legal aid, and court-packing -- Roosevelt's first court vacancies : the Cardozo vacancy -- the Brandeis vacancy -- Court of Appeals years : adjustment and impending World War -- Court of Appeals years : judicial approach and outside interests -- The Byrnes vacancy -- The new justice -- Denaturalized citizenship, West Coast curfew, and Japanese-American internment -- First Amendment freedoms -- Acrimony in the court -- The selective service, price control, and agency review -- War crimes and military commissions -- A new chief, Jackson's blast from Nuremberg, and the striking mine workers -- A more seasoned justice : sharp divides over criminal procedure -- State courts, the Bill of rights, and access to federal courts -- The commerce clause and equal protection -- The Justice's world view -- Last term -- Last days : the man and the Justice remembered