Justice and Faith

Greg Zipes is an attorney and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Studies at New York University.

• Chapter 1 — Childhood on the Shores of Lake Huron 1Chapter 2 — Murphy’s Formal Education and His Exposure to Progressive Ideas 10Chapter 3 — World War I: A Leap over the Top 16Chapter 4 — United States Attorney’s Office: Enforcing Laws as a Patriotic Duty 26Chapter 5 — Private Practice as a Path to Politics 36Chapter 6 — Reformer on the Criminal Court Bench 45Chapter 7 — The Ossian Sweet Trial: A Black Defendant and a White Jury 62Chapter 8 — Murphy as Mayor: Calling a Depression a Depression 75Chapter 9 — Mayor Murphy’s Direct Appeal to Washington for Aid 96Chapter 10 — The New Deal and Murphy 107Chapter 11 — Murphy to the Philippines 124Chapter 12 — The Campaign for Governor 139Chapter 13 — A Governorship Dominated by Labor Strife 148Chapter 14 — Murphy’s Ineffective Reelection Campaign 167Chapter 15 — Murphy as Attorney General of the United States 181Chapter 16 — The Supreme Court: Murphy’s Initial Years 200Chapter 17 — The Japanese-American Internments and the Supreme Court Curfew Cases 231Chapter 18 — Murphy’s Supreme Court Confronts the Expulsions 249Chapter 19 — Last Years 271Chapter 20 — Conclusions 290Bibliography 306Index 312

"I learned loads about a man whose name I’d previously only associated with a courthouse in Detroit that bears his name. . . . And while he might initially seem like a kind of Forrest Gump forebear, appearing in photographs (many of them drawn from U-M’s Bentley Historical Library) alongside far more famous historical figures, Murphy’s place among them was earned through a dogged dedication to ideals that dovetailed neatly with FDR’s progressivism."—Hour Detroit