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Potter Stewart
Definition
- Potter Stewart (1915–1985), associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1958 to1981, is frequently remembered for his famous nondefinition of obscenity: “I know it when I see it.” Stewart began his service on the Court during an era when many justices still wrote their own opinions, and his pithy prose resulted in a number of famous quotations, such as the one on pornography. Although Stewart was a nominal Republican at the time his judicial career began, overall he was a moderate justice, splitting his votes evenly between his more conservative and liberal colleagues. [Source: Encyclopedia of the First Amendment; Stewart, Potter]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Potter_Stewart
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