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Jennifer Szalai
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Years After He Smeared Anita Hill, David Brock Has a New Book, ‘Stench,’ Denouncing Clarence Thomas
As a young conservative, David Brock smeared Hill, who accused the Supreme Court justice of sexual harassment. Now, in a new book, Brock is denouncing…
What Our Broken Politics Owe to the Nazi Jurist Carl Schmitt
A contempt for compromise. An expansive vision of executive power. Both owe much to Carl Schmitt.
Book Review: ‘Reading the Constitution,’ by Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer means well. Why is his new book, “Reading the Constitution,” so exasperating?
Book Review: ‘The Shadow Docket,’ by Stephen Vladeck
A new book by the legal scholar Stephen Vladeck argues that unsigned and unexplained decisions issued through the court’s shadow docket have helped propel its…
Revisiting Justice Stephen Breyer’s Curious (and Strangely Timed) Defense of the Court
In a book published last year, Breyer depicted the Supreme Court as an apolitical institution that sticks to its guiding principles.
A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights
“The Great Dissenter,” by Peter S. Canellos, is a biography of John Marshall Harlan, whose conversion to the civil rights cause was hard-won.