Our leaders should not forget that, as Justice Jackson put it six decades ago, "The real complaining party at your bar is civilization."

But Justice Jackson seems to be a determined man.

No one is clamoring for gossip about Justice Jackson.

Justice Jackson was in the hospital from March 30 to May 17, 1954.

It is not entirely clear why Justice Jackson's concurrence has had such a lasting impact.

Justice Jackson's second category was "a zone of twilight" in which Congress has taken no action.

The county seat lawyer, Justice Jackson wrote, "identified himself with the client's cause fully, sometimes too fully."

Justice Jackson had initially planned to join a dissent in Brown.

Justice Jackson did not ask law clerks to express his views.

The Constitution, Justice Jackson said, is not a suicide pact.