Editing Hugo Black (section)

===Relationship with other justices===
[[File:Roberthjackson.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|left|Black was involved in a bitter controversy with Justice Robert H. Jackson (shown above).]]

In the mid-1940s, Justice Black became involved in a bitter dispute with Justice [[Robert H. Jackson]] as a result of [[Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. United Mine Workers of America|''Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. Local 6167, United Mine Workers'' (1945)]]. In this case the court ruled 5–4 in favor of the UMW; Black voted with the majority, while Jackson dissented. However, the coal company requested the court rehear the case on the grounds that Justice Black should have [[recuse]]d himself, as the mine workers were represented by Black's law partner of 20 years earlier. Under the Supreme Court's rules, each Justice was entitled to determine the propriety of disqualifying himself. Jackson agreed that the petition for rehearing should be denied, but refused to give approval to Black's participation in the case. Ultimately, when the court unanimously denied the petition for rehearing, Justice Jackson released a short statement, in which Justice Frankfurter joined. The concurrence indicated that Jackson voted to deny the petition not because he approved of Black's participation in the case, but on the "limited grounds" that each Justice was entitled to determine for himself the propriety of recusal.<ref>Roger K. Newman, ''Hugo Black'' pp. 333–334.</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Rehnquist|first=William H.|year=1987|title=The Supreme Court|location=New York|publisher=Knopf|isbn=0-688-05714-4|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/supremecourthowi00rehn}}</ref> At first the case attracted little public comment. However, after Chief Justice [[Harlan Stone]] died in 1946, rumors that President [[Harry S. Truman]] would appoint Jackson as Stone's successor led several newspapers to investigate and report the ''Jewell Ridge'' controversy.<ref name="Conscience1">''Salt of the Earth, Conscience of the Court''. By John M. Ferren, Wiley Rutledge. p. 325. UNC Press.</ref> Black and Douglas allegedly leaked to newspapers that they would resign if Jackson were appointed Chief.<ref name="Conscience1"/> Truman ultimately chose [[Fred M. Vinson]] for the position.

In 1948, Justice Black approved an order solicited by [[Abe Fortas]] that barred a federal district court in Texas from further investigation of significant voter fraud and irregularities in the [[1948 United States Senate election in Texas|1948 Democratic primary election runoff for United States Senator from Texas]]. The order effectively confirmed future president [[Lyndon Johnson]]'s apparent victory over former Texas governor [[Coke Stevenson]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Caro|first=Robert A.|author-link=Robert Caro|year=1990|title=The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Means of Ascent|title-link=Means of Ascent|pages=379–384|location=New York|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0-679-73371-3}}</ref>

In the 1960s, Black clashed with Fortas, who by that time had been appointed as an associate justice. In 1968, a Warren clerk called their feud "one of the most basic animosities of the Court".<ref name="abe fortas">{{cite book
| title=Abe Fortas
| author=Laura Kalman
| publisher=[[Yale University Press]]
| year=1990
| isbn=0300173695
| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x-Fbl_xE1E0C
| access-date=October 20, 2008
| archive-date=December 26, 2011
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111226130815/http://books.google.com/books?id=x-Fbl_xE1E0C
| url-status=live
}}</ref>