Hayden covington wikipedia

Hayden Covington, a graduate of the San Antonio Bar Association School of Law (later St. Mary’s University School of Law), ranks among the most overworked and underappreciated attorneys in American history.

During the middle part of the twentieth century, he handled as many as fifty major cases every year involving the civil liberties of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who faced an unparalleled wave of religious persecution because of their uncommon beliefs and sometimes peculiar behavior.

His indefatigable work helped usher in a new era in American constitutional law, the ‘‘rights revolution’’ that reached its apogee under the Warren Court of the s.

Hayden covington wikipedia biography

Unleashed in a courtroom, Covington could be a whirlwind. A brief magazine profile published in , marveling at his athletic delivery of oral arguments, compared him to a cyclone. After watching the frenetic Witness attorney argue several cases in the early s, a Supreme Court clerk cracked that while Covington might not have