We the People: "Brandeis: A great justice and the right to be let alone"

Louis Brandeis, known by the nation at the time of his appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court as “The People’s Lawyer,” and years later affectionately nicknamed “Old Isaiah” by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was one of the greatest jurists and most innovative legal minds in our country’s history.

Fearful of the concentration of power and committed to the principle that the Supreme Court has the a...