U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart's annual ritual of burning his high court papers might explain why the recent opening of his papers may not produce a burst of headline-making revelations about the life and career of the important "swing vote" justice who served on the Court from 1958 to 1981. But some key files chart the trajectory of longstanding relationships that illustrate the powerful place justices occupy in Washington, even though they are far less visible than presidents and senators.
July 20, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Laurence Tribe remembers watching Potter Stewart, the U.S. Supreme Court justice for whom he clerked in 1967, feed his office fireplace around Christmas time.
Stewart was burning some of his Court papers, recalls Tribe, the Harvard law professor and now senior counselor at the Justice Department. “He told me that it was an annual affair.”
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