Justice Pierce Butler

Alexander Cockburn informs us that the Catholic Supreme Court justice's was "the sole dissenting vote" in the "decision to sterilize the unfit in Buck v. Bell," which by which "the United States became the first eugenic nation" — Sotomayor and the Last of the WASPs. Also, "he was one of the 'Four Horsemen' on the Court in the 1930s, fanatical opponents of New Deal legislation."


Pierce Butler's Conservapedia page tells us that this "conservative Democrat picked by a Republican.... proved to be perhaps the best Supreme Court Justice ever."