Last summer’s hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of now-Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court were, as such hearings (unfortunately) now tend to be, unenlightening. Those who hoped the occasion would highlight and sharpen the terms of our constitutional debates, educate the public about our legal traditions, or simply entertain could only have (...)
March 12, 2010
Books
Judicial Modesty
Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme CourtMichael J. PerryCambridge University Press, $75, 264 pp.
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