The End of Super-Precedents
Supreme Courts have a unique feature in the American system: they get to define the precedent that other courts must follow. Therefore, contrary to what you might hear in certain corners of social imagination, Supreme courts are NOT the precedent-following institutions; the lower courts are. But in terms of jurisprudence, this can get a little […]
Coppins on Kavanaugh
It’s a lengthy read, but here are the key takes on judicial ideology: “Even as he climbed the ladder of Washington’s conservative legal establishment, Kavanaugh remained staunchly nonpartisan in his schmoozing. “He was the kind of conservative you could go out to dinner with,” says Ruth Marcus, a liberal columnist at The Washington Post who knew Kavanaugh […]