online archive
5:00PM
DEC 5 2007
The character of justice
From NYRB, Anthony Lewis reviews The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin. A review of Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas by Kevin Merida, Michael Fletcher. More on Clarence Thomas's My Grandfather's Son: A Memoir. A review of The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Confirmation Process by Trevor Parry-Giles. Benjamin Wittes on the wrong-headed movement to force judicial nominees to open up more in Senate confirmation hearings. Open books: Why Supreme Court justices' speeches are less important than oral arguments. Now that the Supreme Court has agreed to interpret the Second Amendment, gun advocates are asking: What could be plainer? Cass Sunstein investigates. Supreme Court Inc.: The Roberts Court unravels a generation of progress. A review of The Secret Circuit: The Little-Known Court Where the Rules of the Information Age Unfold by Bruce D. Abramson.
