Batter up!

GROUND OUT!

David Justice was the Baseball Player.

William Wayne Justice was the Federal Judge.

David Justice

Whenever David Justice hit a home run for the Yankees, the scoreboard in Yankee Stadium displayed “…AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.” After having skipped the seventh and eight grades, Justice majored in Criminal Justice in college. Once Rookie of the Year with the Atlanta Braves, he was bringing home a $7 million annual salary at the time of his retirement in 2002. He helped lead the Braves to a World Series championship in 1995. After being traded to the Indians the next year—a week after being told by the team president that he wouldn’t be traded—he continued to make waves. With 33 home runs during the season, he made it to another World Series in 1997. Justice then racked up 41 homers in the 2000 season. After joining up with the Yankees, he won the AL Championship MVP award. Having been hailed Player of the Week in 2002 with the Oakland Athletics, he retired from baseball that year. After hanging up the uniform, he has worked as an ESPN commentator and a game and studio analyst for the YES Network. This inductee of the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame was also once named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine.

William Wayne Justice

“I’ve been called a controversial judge, so I suppose I am,” William Wayne Justice once said. Justice was a politically active small-town lawyer when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to the federal bench of the Eastern District of Texas in 1968. He had many titles. People who agreed with Justice’s decisions called him the most powerful man in Texas. One column writer said that Justice “brought the United States Constitution to Texas.” Those who disagreed with him sent him hate mail, made death threats, and created bumper stickers demanding his impeachment. “To many, Judge Justice defined the concept of activist judge.” Some even dubbed him “the real governor of Texas.” In the 1978 Plyler v. Doe decision, Justice struck down a Texas law that let public schools charge tuition on the children of illegal immigrants. The case made it to the Supreme Court of the United States, which upheld the ruling and made it the law of the land. In the early 1980s, Justice ruled the Texas prison system unconstitutional, which made way for the reform of “one of the nation’s most brutal correction systems.” Other notable rulings include those that enforced the laws on (1) integrating public housing, (2) bilingual education, and (3) the maintenance of acceptable conditions in the juvenile detention system. After receiving threats arising out of the school desegregation issues at the beginning of his career, Justice did not request armed guards. Instead, he took up taekwondo, a Korean martial art.

CONTINUE WITH QUIZ

CORRECT!

David Justice

Whenever David Justice hit a home run for the Yankees, the scoreboard in Yankee Stadium displayed “…AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.” After having skipped the seventh and eight grades, Justice majored in Criminal Justice in college. Once Rookie of the Year with the Atlanta Braves, he was bringing home a $7 million annual salary at the time of his retirement in 2002. He helped lead the Braves to a World Series championship in 1995. After being traded to the Indians the next year—a week after being told by the team president that he wouldn’t be traded—he continued to make waves. With 33 home runs during the season, he made it to another World Series in 1997. Justice then racked up 41 homers in the 2000 season. After joining up with the Yankees, he won the AL Championship MVP award. Having been hailed Player of the Week in 2002 with the Oakland Athletics, he retired from baseball that year. After hanging up the uniform, he has worked as an ESPN commentator and a game and studio analyst for the YES Network. This inductee of the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame was also once named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by People magazine.

William Wayne Justice

“I’ve been called a controversial judge, so I suppose I am,” William Wayne Justice once said. Justice was a politically active small-town lawyer when President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to the federal bench of the Eastern District of Texas in 1968. He had many titles. People who agreed with Justice’s decisions called him the most powerful man in Texas. One column writer said that Justice “brought the United States Constitution to Texas.” Those who disagreed with him sent him hate mail, made death threats, and created bumper stickers demanding his impeachment. “To many, Judge Justice defined the concept of activist judge.” Some even dubbed him “the real governor of Texas.” In the 1978 Plyler v. Doe decision, Justice struck down a Texas law that let public schools charge tuition on the children of illegal immigrants. The case made it to the Supreme Court of the United States, which upheld the ruling and made it the law of the land. In the early 1980s, Justice ruled the Texas prison system unconstitutional, which made way for the reform of “one of the nation’s most brutal correction systems.” Other notable rulings include those that enforced the laws on (1) integrating public housing, (2) bilingual education, and (3) the maintenance of acceptable conditions in the juvenile detention system. After receiving threats arising out of the school desegregation issues at the beginning of his career, Justice did not request armed guards. Instead, he took up taekwondo, a Korean martial art.

CONTINUE WITH QUIZ