Who Really Wrote Roe?
Kevin Murphy (via Jim Lindgren at Volokh) has a good post about who really wrote Roe v. Wade.
You thought it was Justice Blackmun? How naive. . .
Kevin Murphy (via Jim Lindgren at Volokh) has a good post about who really wrote Roe v. Wade.
You thought it was Justice Blackmun? How naive. . .
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Does this mean that its wrong to say that ‘9 robed justices’ have all sorts of power. That its more accurate to say that that power is more distributed? That the calls for limiting the tenure of judges are unfounded because, well, the tenure of their clerks is effectively limited.
actus (0f2616) — 4/23/2005 @ 9:08 pmThe Blackmun Scandal
Vote for Judges (59ce3a) — 4/24/2005 @ 9:23 amSo we have clerks not only writing Blackmun’s opinions for him, we have clerks conspiring, more or less, to time the hearing of cases to have maximum impact on a presidential election.
Weird.