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Liberal judge [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] disliked Harlan, calling him "the last of the tobacco-spitting judges" (which was a "time-honored tradition of the Court").<ref name="ANB"/> On the other hand, the more conservative justice [[David J. Brewer]] publically said of Harlan, that he "believes implicitly in the Constitution. He goes to bed every night with one hand on the Constitution and the other on the Bible, and so sleeps the sweet sleep of justice and righteousness."<ref name="ANB"/>
Liberal judge [[Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.]] disliked Harlan, calling him "the last of the tobacco-spitting judges" (which was a "time-honored tradition of the Court").<ref name="ANB"/> On the other hand, the more conservative justice [[David J. Brewer]] publically said of Harlan, that he "believes implicitly in the Constitution. He goes to bed every night with one hand on the Constitution and the other on the Bible, and so sleeps the sweet sleep of justice and righteousness."<ref name="ANB"/>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
==Legacy==
==Legacy==
On March 12, 1906, Harlan donated a [[King James Version]] [[Bible]] to the Supreme Court.<ref name="Harlan Bible">{{cite news | last1=White | first1=Darrell | title=“Harlan Bible” Day – March 12 (1906) | url=http://ajatoday.com/archives/56 | date=March 12, 2008 | publisher=American Judicial Alliance | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> This Bible had become known as the "Harlam Bible," and, as of 2015, has been signed by every succeeding Supreme Court justice after taking the oath of office.<ref name="Harlan Bible"/> As of 2015, the American Judicial Alliance (AJA), a Christian judicial organization, is attempting to place a copy of the Harlan Bible in every courtroom in the United States.<ref>{{cite news | title=Lawyers Present Commemorative Bible to Chautauqua County Court | url=http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/577874.html | date=November 4, 2012 | publisher=''[[Observer (Dunkirk)|The Observer]]'' | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Bible Project | url=http://ajatoday.com/bible-project | publisher=''American Judicial Alliance'' | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref>
On March 12, 1906, Harlan donated a [[King James Version]] [[Bible]] to the Supreme Court.<ref name="Harlan Bible">{{cite news | last1=White | first1=Darrell | title=“Harlan Bible” Day – March 12 (1906) | url=http://ajatoday.com/archives/56 | date=March 12, 2008 | publisher=American Judicial Alliance | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref> This Bible had become known as the "Harlam Bible," and, as of 2015, has been signed by every succeeding Supreme Court justice after taking the oath of office.<ref name="Harlan Bible"/> As of 2015, the American Judicial Alliance (AJA), a Christian judicial organization, is attempting to place a copy of the Harlan Bible in every courtroom in the United States.<ref>{{cite news | title=Lawyers Present Commemorative Bible to Chautauqua County Court | url=http://www.observertoday.com/page/content.detail/id/577874.html | date=November 4, 2012 | publisher=''[[Observer (Dunkirk)|The Observer]]'' | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Bible Project | url=http://ajatoday.com/bible-project | publisher=''American Judicial Alliance'' | accessdate=October 24, 2015}}</ref>
Harlan's grandson [[John Marshall Harlan II]] was also a justice of United States Supreme Court.
== References ==
== References ==