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Meet the Supremes

From the International Journal of Speech Language and the Law, a review of Creating Language Crimes: How Law Enforcement Uses (and Misuses) Language by Roger W. Shuy. An interview with Wendy Murphy, author of And Justice for Some: An Expose of the Lawyers and Judges Who Let Dangerous Criminals Go Free. More and more and more and more on The Nine by Jeffrey Toobin (and an interview). Three decades ago, Justice John Paul Stevens was appointed to the Supreme Court as a judicial conservative and moderate Republican. So how did he come to lead the liberal wing of a fiercely divided court? A review of Strategic Selection: Presidential Nomination of Supreme Court Justices from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush by Christine Nemacheck.