The Senator from Harvard has no conception of the proper judicial role other than that it should favor litigants whose political stances she supports.
The Most Pretentious Branch?
In his new book, The Credentialed Court, Benjamin H. Barton shows that, in selecting the most impeccably credentialed set of justices in history, we have also ensured that the Supreme Court will lack genuine diversity of life experience. This very narrow understanding of meritocracy has significant implications for the justice dispensed at the highest levels. Two Law & Liberty contributors review the book:
Ivy League Justice
Mark Pulliam
The Age of the Judicial Thoroughbred
Glenn Harlan Reynolds