Brandeis

This week’s appearance by five gubernatorial candidates points to the importance of Jewish voters, who tend to vote at higher rates than average Americans, according to Brandeis University.

Wixon establishing due process and free speech rights for noncitizens facing deportation and to embrace Brandeis’ and Holmes’ ideas about free speech.

Wixon built on the ideas of Justice Louis Brandeis that free speech plays an essential role in American democracy as well as the ideas of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. that free speech means “freedom for the thought that we hate.”

Moreover, the legal profession has long been considered an advocate of what former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once called “the attainment of liberty through law.”

In the U.S. — there's a great book about this, "Social Thought in America: The Revolt Against Formalism" — that included pragmatic thinkers like John Dewey, William James, Louis Brandeis and others, who basically said these abstractions and general laws don't capture the essence of the situation.