Tag archives for Robert Bork

V’s Legalese: Judiciary Antebellum

Federal courts have made a lot of news lately. Most of it is not good. We ask a lot of our courts, but life was better when America did not know the names of federal district judges like Jeb Boasberg, Tanya Chutkan, Amir Ali, Amy Berman Jackson, and so many others.  The present judicial landscape […]

The Wound at the Heart of the Supreme Court Confirmation Process

It hasn’t always been this way.  There is only one way to fix it.  And it ain’t pretty. The newest Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson – a former clerk of the Justice she has been chosen to replace, a federal practitioner of criminal defense, former member of the United States Sentencing Commission, and near-decade […]