David Rein

David Rein (1914–1979) was a 20th-Century American attorney who, with partner Joseph Forer, supported Progressive causes including the legal defense of African-Americans and accused Communists.

[1][2][3] In March 1938, like his friend Forer, Rein began work for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) through late 1941 or early 1942.

After spending a few months in the Office of Price Administration, he joined the United States Marine Corps at yearend 1942 and served through October 1945, when he returned to the NLRB.

They included Harry Sacher, Abe Unger, David Freeman, Forer, and Rabinowitz himself, "all lawyers active in the representation of witnesses before congressional committees."

Regardless, Forer's research found that the U.S. Congress had jurisdiction over DC and so could overrule segregation; Charles H. Houston, dean of Howard University Law School concurred.

[1] The Washington Post recounted in 1985, "Four days after the Supreme Court ruled, Mary Terrell and the three other original complainants went back to Thompson's.

They won for the National Council for American-Soviet Friendship the right to contest in court its designation by the attorney general as a "subversive organization."

In 1977, a release of internal memos of the FBI revealed, according to The Washington Post, that: An Oct. 4, 1951 memo to Hoover said that a search of trash at the Washington offices of guild lawyers Joseph Forer and David Rein had uncovered a draft resolution urging President Truman to authorize a citizens' investigation of the FBI because of its alleged excesses in loyalty checks.

[1][2] Forer, Rein, and many friends and associates lived at Trenton Terrace, 950 Mississippi Avenue SE, Washington DC 20032.