title: Reason and Passion: Justice Brennan's Enduring Influence
author: Brennan Center for Justice
description: <i>Reason and Passion</i> is something of a love letter to retired Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. from the Brennan Center, an organization founded by Brennan's former law clerks. In it, three dozen contributors discuss the justice's impact on the law and the nation over the nearly four decades that he served on the Court. The list of admirers includes judges, journalists, law professors, and lawyers, all of whom recall in their essays the importance of Brennan's opinions to the cause of human rights and equality under the law. Brennan, one of the Court's most liberal judges, was a great defender of individual rights, a position that paradoxically increased the strength of the federal government in ruling after ruling.
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  # Justice in Time
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## John Ellsworth
  
  
  ## CD Brennan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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