Smith v. Allwright
Supreme Court decision
By: Stanley F. Reed
Date: April 3, 1944
Source: Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944). Reprinted in Kutler, Stanley, ed. The Supreme Court and the Constitution: Readings in American Constitutional History, 3d ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1984, 589–592.
About the Author: Justice Stanley F. Reed (1884–1980) acted as the general prosecutor for the Federal Farm Board and was solicitor general under President Franklin D. Roosevelt (served 1933–1945) before his 1938 appointment to the Supreme Court. In 1949 he testified on behalf of Alger Hiss, who was accused of perjury in connection with charges of spying for the Soviet Union. Reed retired from the Court in 1957. When he died in 1980 he was the longest lived member of the Supreme Court.
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