ABSTRACT
Hoover’s nomination of John J. Parker to the Supreme Court seemed appropriate, and one that the Senate would promptly confirm. One point mentioned in the New Republic, almost in passing, was that one of Parker’s decisions had allowed “the West Virginia non-union mines to enjoin the United Mineworkers from interfering with their business on the grounds of a restraint of interstate commerce.” Parker had upheld the use of the injunction and he had accepted the yellow dog contract as a legitimate device. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People based its opposition on Parker’s comment in 1920 about the Negro in politics. In 1946, the American Bar Association Journal, surveying Parker’s record of twenty years on the Circuit Court, called the Senate’s refusal to confirm the “most regrettable combinations of error and injustice that has ever developed as to a nomination to the great court.”.
