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Taking the Con Out of Con. Law: The struggle over judicial interpretation.
National Review
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June 03, 2002 |
Epstein, Richard A. |
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Signs of crisis dominate the current landscape of constitutional law. Bush v. Gore may have chosen a president, but it left an open wound in the body politic. Prominent Democrats -- including Judge Abner Mikva -- have urged a senatorial moratorium on any Bush Supreme Court nominees until another presidential election removes his ostensible stain of illegitimacy. Worse still, major legal intellectuals like Michael McConnell languish in judicial-nomination limbo because of the newfound senatorial insistence on "mainstream" jurists for the federal courts. Harvard's Laurence Tribe has testified that conscientious Democratic senators should put ideological considerations front ...
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