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thurgood marshall

9 Powerful Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

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George Carlin

How George Carlin’s ‘Seven Words’ Changed Legal History

ruth bader ginsburg and her husband john ginsburg attend a gala opening night dinner following a washington opera performance oct 21, 2000

The Love Story of Ruth Bader and Marty Ginsburg

Chicago 8

The Key Defendants in the Chicago 7 Trial

A group of children saluting the American flag at a school in the Chinatown area of Manhattan circa 1960

Martha and Berda Lum: The Chinese American Schoolchildren Who Fought to Desegregate Southern Schools

Faces of the FBI

Christopher Wray

Christopher Wray

J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover

Donnie Brasco

Mark Felt

Mark Felt

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Eunice Carter

Eunice Hunton Carter: The Woman Who Reeled in Lucky Luciano

The trailblazing Black lawyer uncovered the evidence that tied the Mafia boss to a prostitution operation and led to his conviction.

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Supreme Court Justices

sonia sotomayor wears her black supreme court justice robes, dangling pearl earrings, and red lipstick, she smiles at the camera, and her curly hair frames her face down to her neck

Sonia Sotomayor

ketanji brown jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson

elena kagan

Elena Kagan

Anthony Kennedy

Anthony Kennedy

Antonin Scalia

Antonin Scalia

samuel alito smiles slightly at the camera, he wears black robes over a light blue collared shirt and red tie with a white and blue stripe

Samuel Alito

brett kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh

neil gorsuch

Neil Gorsuch

ruth bader ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Sandra Day O’Connor

Earl Warren

Earl Warren

John Marshall

John Marshall

O.J. Simpson’s Defense Team

They played leading roles in one of the most prominent cases of the last 30 years.

robert kardashian

Robert Kardashian

johnnie cochran

Johnnie Cochran

robert shapiro

Robert Shapiro

marcia clark photo

Marcia Clark

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More Famous Legal Figures

roy cohn shaking a hand as donald trump stands to his right smiling

Donald Trump Had an Influential Mentor in Roy Cohn

frida kahlo sits on a table while wearing a floral head piece, large earrings, a plaid blouse and striped pants, she looks off to the right

14 Hispanic Women Who Have Made History

A Timeline of Clarence Thomas Controversies

Ken Starr Photo

Ken Starr

samuel alito smiles slightly at the camera, he wears black robes over a light blue collared shirt and red tie with a white and blue stripe

Samuel Alito

marcia clark photo

Marcia Clark

robert shapiro

Robert Shapiro

johnnie cochran

Johnnie Cochran

robert kardashian

Robert Kardashian

sandra day o'connor smiles at the camera, she wears a purple outfit, a silver necklace, and large earrings

Sandra Day O’Connor

sonia sotomayor wears her black supreme court justice robes, dangling pearl earrings, and red lipstick, she smiles at the camera, and her curly hair frames her face down to her neck

Sonia Sotomayor

ketanji brown jackson

Ketanji Brown Jackson

richard loving

Richard Loving

Agency Chiefs Testify On Worldwide Threats To Senate Intelligence CommitteeGina Haspel, director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), smiles while testifying during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2019. Haspel said "a very robust monitoring regime" would be necessary under a potential U.S. peace accord with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Photographer: Aaron P. Bernstein/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Gina Haspel

Stephen Breyer

Stephen Breyer

Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness