Jueces judíos del Tribunal Supremo de EE. UU.
Ocho judíos han sido jueces del Tribunal Supremo de Estados Unidos, desde Louis Brandeis en 1916 hasta Elena Kagan hoy. Entre todos inscribieron el derecho a la intimidad en el derecho americano, lograron abogado para todo acusado, sentenciaron que los alumnos conservan sus derechos constitucionales en la escuela y construyeron la jurisprudencia de la igualdad de sexos. Durante décadas el escaño pasó de un juez judío al siguiente y se lo llamó, a medias abiertamente, «el escaño judío».
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Benjamin CardozoUS Supreme Court Justice and influential common-law jurist; author of 'The Nature of the Judicial Process' · 1870
Felix FrankfurterUS Supreme Court Justice and constitutional scholar; leading advocate of judicial restraint · 1882
Louis BrandeisUS Supreme Court Justice; co-author of the seminal 'The Right to Privacy' and pioneer of the fact-based 'Brandeis brief' · 1856
Ruth Bader GinsburgUS Supreme Court Justice and champion of gender equality. · 1933Abe FortasSupreme Court justice; as a lawyer he argued Gideon v. Wainwright, which gave every criminal defendant the right to counsel · 1965Arthur GoldbergUS Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court justice and ambassador to the United Nations; drafted UN Security Council Resolution 242 · 1962Elena KaganSupreme Court justice since 2010; first woman to serve as Dean of Harvard Law School and as Solicitor General of the United States · 2010Stephen BreyerSupreme Court justice 1994-2022; a pragmatist who argued that the Constitution must be read for the workable consequences of a rule · 1994