Round-Up
Virginia Heffernan of the New York Times has this review of the four-part PBS program, “The Supreme Court”, which begins tonight at 9 p.m.; Tom Shales has this review of the documentary in today’s Washington Post; and Stephen Wermiel reviews the program here at the Politco. At How Appealing, Howard Bashman collects additional reviews here. Jeffrey Rosen, whose new book The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America is a companion to the PBS series, will be online at the washingtonpost.com tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. to discuss the the show, his book and the Court.
In yesterday’s LA Times, David G. Savage reports here on the right to habeas corpus. This LA Times editorial discusses the limits on political speech at issue in the upcoming Wisconsin Right to Life case.
At the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog, Doug Berman has this post discussing the Blakely opinion.
The beginning of the doc was not promising and I turned it off. This was partially because of a pet peeve I have about people who suggest the SC really didn’t start until Marbury v. Madison.
It really is misleading to skip over the true beginnings of judicial review, at least a bit about what the framers had in mind when they wrote Art. III, and so forth. How about one of those Civil War like voices reading key phrases from the appropriate Federalist?
Heck, a justice who had to flee creditors, and a nominated CJ who tried to kill himself alone offers some fun material, no? Anyway, since the final episodes of the Civil War documentary is on later tonight (at least in NYC), maybe some will agree that style documentary still holds up. The SC doc just wasn’t as good, even by those standards.
But, maybe it got better?
Comment by Joe Paulson — February 1, 2007 @ 1:10 am