Senate confirms first Jew to U.S. Supreme Court 100 years ago this hour (June 1 1916)


Video: 'Justice Louis D. Brandeis, The People's Attorney'

(Thursday, June 1, 1916, 5:00 p.m. local time)Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish American to serve on the nation’s highest bench, took his seat today as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court after the Senate officially confirmed his nomination by a vote of 47 to 22.