SCOTUSblog on camera: Walter Dellinger (Part two)

Part Two: Consequences

“The single greatest shift between the Court on which I clerked and the present Court is the degree to which the Court respects the judgment of the other branches of government.”

Justice Hugo Black as a writer; hyper-technical opinions and the effect of too many Supreme Court clerks; oral argument as the way to understand the Court; the need for more diversity of experience on the Court; why Justices with political experience would benefit the Court and its judgments; the Court as a necessarily political but not partisan institution; and just how well prepared this Court really is.

(Fabrizio di Piazza)