Robert Spearman
Class of 1965
A speech on Justice Hugo Black and the Pentagon Papers case delivered at a meeting of the North Carolina College of Trial Lawyers. April 2010.
We went to work with the Judge on what, happily, would be a concurrence to the brief per curiam.
We drove to his house in Alexandria on consecutive early mornings, where the Judge gave us a tutorial on the country’s legal history.
(“What did the Constitution lack when it was first ratified? It was missing its most critical element, the First Amendment.”)
Justice Hugo Black in 1953 (front row, second from left) Photo courtesy the United States Supreme Court
