Supreme Court "Farm Team"---State High Courts

There should be a return to the old Republican notion of appointing distinguished State High Court Judges to the United States Supreme Court.

This tradition resulted in the appointment, for example, of Oliver Wendall Holmes, Jr., of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, to the US Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt and the appointment of Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, of the NY Court of Appeals, to the US Supreme Court by President Hoover.

These men, as former judges on courts of last resort at the State level, had an understanding of finality. They understood, in Justice Jackson's words, "That we are not 'final' because we are 'supreme,' but 'supreme' because we are final.' "