How one U.S. Supreme Court case broke two justices and changed the nation forever.
Well, the thing that I find perhaps most extraordinary is that less than two weeks after the decision in Baker versus Carr came down ...And Frankfurter's secretary found him sprawled on the floor of his office from a stroke.And while he was in the hospital, Solicitor General Archibald Cox visited Frankfurter. And Frankfurter, he was in a wheelchair and could barely speak, but he apparently conveyed to Archibald Cox that the decision in Baker versus Carr had essentially caused his stroke.
Gore, when the sentiments about this were still quite raw—I would say to them,"Well, was Frankfurter right?" And I remember a student in the mid-2000s who said in class,"I never thought I would say this. But—because I hated the outcome and Bush v. Gore. I was so angry when the court interceded. But if Bush v Gore is the price we have to pay for the courts making the overall political system work somewhat more tolerably, properly, it's a price I'm willing to pay.
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