[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black

Southern (from Alabama) and Protestant (Baptist), and "conservative" at least in the sense of "strict constructionist/textualist," whether or not you agree with his own specific Constitutional interpretations.

[Wallace T.]

Hugo Black was no more a strict constructionist or originalist than Earl Warren, David Souter, or Ruth Ginsburg. He was a New Deal era liberal appointed to the Supreme Court by Franklin Roosevelt to counterbalance the then-conservative majority on that bench. Black was clearly associated with the group of liberals on the Supreme Court that included Felix Frankfurter, William Douglas, Frank Murphy, and Thurgood Marshall.