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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

The First Supreme Court Citation to the Scopes Trial

Until today, I never noticed that Justice Frankfurter's dissent in Barnette (the flag-salute case) was the first Supreme Court citation of the Scopes Trial. In his discussion of the intersection of public education and faith, he cites Scopes v. State. 

Posted by Gerard Magliocca on January 24, 2024 at 08:18 PM | Permalink

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