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U.S. Supreme Court,
Judges and Judiciary,
Constitutional Law

Jul. 23, 2018

Do you really believe judges apply neutral principles?

If you do not think those things affect Supreme Court decisions and that each of the nine justices approaches each case with a blank slate, applying neutral principles, so be it.

Robert Solomon

Clinical Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law

Email: rsolomon@law.uci.edu

Brett Kavanaugh on Capitol Hill, July 17, 2018. (New York Times News Service)

There have been 113 Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and 107 have been white men. We are told that the latest white man to be nominated is smart, thoughtful, hard-working and civil to others. We are told that he is a strict constructionist, who believes that the Constitution "speaks in the same words, with the same meaning and intent, with which it spoke when it came from the hands of its framers, and was voted on and adopted by the people of the United States. Any ...

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