ms. lynch: the public reaction to his announcement was swift and explosive. former president william howard taft denounced the nomination, calling brandeis quote -- and muckegor -- a mc raker -- raker. and in my judgment, of much power for evil. the "new york times," complained to the brandeis is essentially a contender, a striver after change and reform it. yes, brandeis was rather tenacious, and he certainly was striving to reform society. as a young lawyer, he and samuel war and wrote in 1890 and extremely influential essay in the harvard law review the defined the right to privacy for the modern age, in response to what they called the all too enterprising press, and new technologies that could reproduce things or sounds. later, when taking legal action to limit the number of hours that women were forced to work in certain industries, he ,nvented a new form of argument relying on data and evidence, not just legal theory. brief was born, and became a staple of american law. power ofgrowing mammoth financial institutions threatened to overwhelm the interest