Former Federal Appellate Judge Says Supreme Court Has Become 'A Tragedy' For The Rule Of Law
Precedent no longer matters at the Supreme Court, a recently retired federal appellate judge says in his new book.
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I’ve made peace with my blindness. But I’m concerned about the Supreme Court’s apparent disregard for the principles of judicial restraint that distinguish the unelected judiciary from the two elected branches of government—and about what that might mean for our planet and our democracy.
— Retired Judge David Tatel of the D.C. Circuit, speaking of the direction of the Supreme Court in his new book, Vision: A Memoir of Blindness and Justice (affiliate link). In book excerpts noted by CNN, Tatel criticized Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinions on race, and said that the high court had “kicked precedent to the curb.”
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