From the urban legend department: McReynolds, Brandeis, and the myth of the 1924 group photograph

@article{Jantzen2015FromTU,  title={From the urban legend department: McReynolds, Brandeis, and the myth of the 1924 group photograph},  author={Franz Jantzen},  journal={Journal of Supreme Court History},  year={2015},  volume={40},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:145392466}}
James Clark McReynolds (Associate Justice, 1914–1941) might be the single most personally unpopular Supreme Court Justice in history. Anecdotes about his difficult and offensive personality are regularly repeated in most contemporary references to him of any depth, and a number of these refer to insults he directed at his Jewish Brethren. But was he so anti-Semitic that there is no group photograph for 1924 because he refused to sit next to Justice Louis D. Brandeis, as the seating arrangement… 

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