None of the US Supreme Court justices, or their relatives, have been associated with fascism.
There is an indefensible rumor circulating on the internet that Justice Antonin Scalia's father, S. Eugene Scalia, founded the American Fascist Party in 1934. Although we unintentionally helped perpetuate this misinformation, research indicates the rumor is false.
Salvatore Eugene Scalia was a first-generation Italian immigrant who obtained a PhD from Columbia University and taught Romance Languages at Brooklyn College. He translated a number of books from Italian to English, including Philip Mazzei's memoir, My Life and Wanderings.
There is no evidence suggesting Justice Scalia's father even supported fascism, although that was a common allegation against Italians in the years between WWI and WW II.
No American Fascist Party
Lawrence Dennis, an American diplomat and author, advocated fascism and talked of founding the "American Fascist Party" in the years following the Great Depression, but the group never materialized. Dennis and others were tried for sedition under the Smith Act (18 USC § 2385) in what became known as The Great Sedition Trial of 1944. The case ended in a mistrial when the judge died of a heart-attack.
It appears the closest organization to an American fascist party was the German-American Bund, supporters of Nazi Germany.
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Thurgood Marshall was a justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was the first African- American ever to be appointed as a justice.
No. Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American on the US Supreme Court. Justice Clarence Thomas is the second African-American US Supreme Court justice. President George HW Bush nominated him in 1991 to replace Thurgood Marshall, who was retiring. Justice Thomas is an incumbent on the bench.
John Jay was the first American Supreme Court Justice.
Frederick Dougalas
There has not been an African American Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. The first African American Associate Justice was the Honorable Thurgood Marshall.
President George HW Bush nominated Justice Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court in 1991.
John F. Kennedy
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American jurist and former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
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Thurgood Marshall
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