Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Abstract
Professor Cassandra Burke Robertson’s outstanding article, Judicial Impartiality in A Partisan Era, is timely given the increasing politicization of the judiciary. The political debate and controversy around the Judge Garland nomination and the Justice Kavanaugh confirmation to the United States Supreme Court, only served to reaffirm that the judiciary is not immune from the growing political polarization in America. And it is not just senate judicial confirmation battles that have become highly bitter and partisan. Scholars writing about the substantive work of the Court have argued that it is more akin to a political body than a judicial one, and others have called for constitutional issues to be taken away from the Court. The recent spate of 5–4 decisions upholding President Trump’s immigration policies will further convince many people that Supreme Court justices are nothing more than politicians in robes.
Publication Title
Florida Law Review Forum
Volume
70
Article Number
1132
First Page
148
Last Page
154
Suggested Bluebook Citation
70 Fla. L. Rev. F. 148 (2019)
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