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Though Judge Hand served more than 50 years on the federal bench and is considered one of the very finest jurists in American history,<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1064953</ref> he was never nominated to serve on the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].
Though Judge Hand served more than 50 years on the federal bench and is considered one of the very finest jurists in American history,<ref>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1064953</ref> he was never nominated to serve on the [[U.S. Supreme Court]].
In over a half-century of deciding cases, Judge Hand declared only only two laws to be unconstitutional.<ref>Gerald Gunther, "LEARNED HAND: The Man and the Judge," Foreword by Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (Alfred A. Knopf. S35. 818 pp.).</ref>
In over a half-century of deciding cases, Judge Hand declared only only two laws to be unconstitutional.
==Further reading==
* Griffith, Kathryn. ''Judge Learned Hand and the Role of the Federal Judiciary.'' (1973). 251 pp.
* Gunther, Gerald. ''Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge'' (1994), the standard scholarly biographt
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