Comments on: Round-Up http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/round-up-65/ The Supreme Court of the United States blog Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:56:34 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Joe Paulson http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/round-up-65/comment-page-1/#comment-10924 Joe Paulson Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:10:38 +0000 http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/uncategorized/round-up-65/#comment-10924 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? 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?

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