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Judicial Independence: Playing Politics with the Constitution
(Georgia State University Law Review, 1998)
I begin with a question: why have a conference on judicial independence? To find the answer, one need only read the newspapers. Judicial independence-as well as its political counterpart, judicial impeachment-is a hot topic ...
Justice O'Connor's Dilemma: The Baseline Question
(William and Mary Law Review, 1998)
Many commentators view City of Boerne v. Flores,' in which a divided Supreme Court struck down the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), as a major defeat in the battle for religious freedom in the United ...
Religion and the Public Square: Making Democracy Safe for Religious Minorities
(1998)
In 1995, Judge Richard Posner ruled that the state of Illinois could not celebrate Good Friday as a statewide holiday for the public schools.' Closing all Illinois public schools on Good Friday, Posner declared, violated ...
Textualism and Judgment
(George Washington Law Review, 1998)
Akhil Amar has written a provocative defense of textualism as a method of constitutional interpretation. In the book from which his essay is drawn, Professor Amar uses his textualist method to interpret the Bill of Rights ...
Independent Judges and Independent Justice
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 1998)
Professor Currie's article [See David P. Currie, "Separating Judicial Power", 61 LAW & CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS 7 (Summer 1998) ] discusses historical attempts to limit judicial independence. I consider the converse: how ...