Judge Damon J. Keith, a grandson of slaves and revered figure in the civil rights movement, died Sunday.
Keith said they couldn't engage in the warrantless wiretapping of three people suspected of conspiring to destroy government property. The decision was affirmed by the appellate court, and the Nixon administration appealed and sued Keith personally. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where the judge prevailed in what became known as"the Keith case."
"During his more than 50 years on the federal bench, he handed down rulings that have safeguarded some of our most important and cherished civil liberties, stopping illegal government wiretaps and secret deportation hearings, as well as ending racial segregation in Pontiac schools," Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan said in a statement.
"I came up with the words, but Judge Keith was clearly the inspiration behind the whole thing," Madhiraju, an attorney for the Center for American Progress, told The Associated Press in December 2017."There's no way if I'd worked any other judge in the country I would have thought of that phrase." Keith told the AP in an October 2017 interview that the phrase,"Equal justice under law," etched onto the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, inspired him and always summoned the lessons Thurgood Marshall taught him as one of his professors at Howard University. Marshall became the first black Supreme Court justice in October 1967 — the same month Keith received his federal appointment.
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