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Sutherland, George

(1862–1942) Supreme Court justice; born in Stony Stratford, Buckinghampshire, England. He came to the U.S.A. at age two. He was a member of Utah's first legislature (1896), the U.S. House of Representatives (Rep., Utah; 1901–03), and the Senate (Rep., Utah; 1905–17). President Harding named him to the U.S. Supreme Court (1922–38) where he frequently voted against New Deal measures.
The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography, by John S. Bowman. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995. Reproduced with permission.
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"It is important to bear in mind that we are here dealing not alone with an authority vested in the President by an exertion of legislative power," declared the majority opinion of Justice George Sutherland, but also with the "plenary and exclusive power of the President in the field of international relations--a power which does not require as a basis for its exercise an act of Congress." When that sort of executive power is at stake, Sutherland wrote, the president must be afforded "a degree of discretion and freedom from statutory restriction which would not be admissible were domestic affairs alone involved."
Islander George Sutherland lost PS13,250 after fraudsters hacked his email account when he was buying a new car.
George Sutherland, 68, said: "I was sitting in my garden on Sunday evening and smelled smoke and went out to investigate.
Don was proud of his family heritage and proudly displayed his Loyalist Certificate as a descendant of George Sutherland UE of Glengarry.
Michael Glennon, writing in the Yale Journal of International Law in 1988, referred to the "extravagant scheme concocted by Justice George Sutherland, first unveiled in his earlier writings and later, in 1936, transposed into a Supreme Court opinion, and unleashed upon the nation in United States v.
George Sutherland, now 92, told the Sunday Mirror: "My dad revealed it to me when he retired and I took his job.
After the tumult died down, my supervisor read us the famous passage from Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland's opinion in the 1935 case Bergerv.
Lamar Associate justice 1911-1916 Mahlon Pitney Associate justice 1912-1922 George Sutherland Associate justice 1922-1938 Stanley F.
1919), Russell Kirk (1918-1994), Frank Meyer (1909-1972), Felix Morley (1894-1982), Robert Nisbet (1913-1996), George Sutherland (1862-1942), William Riker (1920-1993), and Richard Weaver (1910-1963)--is, unfortunately, not inclusive; indeed, it suffers from obvious omissions.
On the other hand, justices perceived as hostile to the New Deal--specifically Willis Van Devanter, James McReynolds, George Sutherland, and Pierce Butler--have been systematically denigrated as the Four Horsemen.
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