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The Next Justice.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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What do we want in a Supreme Court Justice, and how should we get it? Eisgruber, a former Supreme Court clerk, argues that the first step is to do away with the idea that the process can or should be entirely divorced from politics. It's not that the justices are pawns of political interests--if anything, the author is generous about their ability to resist such pressures--but that the Constitution traffics in abstractions like "equality" ...

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