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For the first 127 years of the US Supreme Court, the Senate did not hold public confirmation hearings for nominees. The first public hearing was held in 1916 for Pres. Woodrow Wilson's nominee, Louis D. Brandeis...
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2/ Brandeis attended high school in Louisville, KY before living in Europe with his family for a few years. He then returned to study at Harvard Law. He became a public interest lawyer where he famously wrote a brief defending a law limiting women to 10 hours of work/day...
3/ The brief focused on social science(?) arguments to defend the wisdom of the law's policies. For example, as @ProfDBernstein wrote in @GB2d, Brandeis argued that women have "more water" in their blood than men and this "inferiority" makes it dangerous for them to work 10+hours
