WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices Felix Frankfurter and William Brennan — Washington neighbors and frequent adversaries on the bench — are among four justices being honored on new stamps.
Nineteenth-century Justice Joseph Story, whose father took part in the Boston Tea Party, and Justice Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish American on the court, are the others.
The four 44-cent stamps were released Tuesday at ceremonies at the court that included Chief Justice John Roberts.
The justices were recognized for their long service and significant contributions. Brandeis served 22 years, the shortest tenure of the four. Brennan and Story were on the court more than 33 years.
All four justices went to Harvard, and Frankfurter had personal ties to two of the others.
Brandeis was Frankfurter’s patron. Their court tenures overlapped by just a couple of weeks.
Brennan was Frankfurter’s student at Harvard and later, his colleague on the court for six years. They often clashed on the court over their differing views of the law. But Brennan’s daughter was a regular visitor at Frankfurter’s house on the same street in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, where she regularly played the piano for Frankfurter’s wife, said American University law professor Stephen Wermiel, who is at work on a Brennan biography.
Thirteen justices, including these four, have been on stamps: Chief Justices Earl Warren, Harlan Fiske Stone, Charles Evans Hughes, William Howard Taft, John Marshall and John Jay, and Justices Thurgood Marshall, Hugo Black and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
 
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