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The Supreme Court, by Jeffrey Rosen

Started by johnlilly · 10 months ago

I keep circling back around to reading books about the US Supreme Court — it’s a topic I’ve been interested in for a while, most recently reading Rehnquist’s history. This new book from Jeffrey Rosen that serves as a companion to a new PBS Series of ... Continue reading »

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  • JT

    2 years ago

    interesting comment about Roberts... I think your hope in Roberts is very generous. Regardless of what you think of the substance and the social consequences of his decisions, his push to have more narrowly tailored rulings has produced quite a few useless decisions for the lower courts, because the SCOTUS decision on applies to that particular case, rather than giving a frame work for future decisions. He needs to remember that this is the Supreme Court (the final appellate court) and not a district court.
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  • John

    2 years ago

    hey JT -- i'd say that the recent decisions (like the last week) show that irrespective of what Roberts did in his first term, they're deeply divided along political lines now, in a very destructive way.
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