Bench Memos

Kirsanow on Roberts

Has anyone over here at Bench Memos paid proper tribute to Peter Kirsanow? Today he has his third article on John Roberts, once again very informative–and once again very good news about Roberts’s jurisprudence. (Previous Kirsanow articles are here and here.)

The really good news–compiled as well by the indefatigable Ed Whelan all over this page–is that it appears John Roberts has a sound understanding of the illegitimacy of judging according to a results orientation, and that he unabashedly believes (what is scandalously disbelieved all over the legal academy) that there are correct and incorrect answers to interpretive questions under the Constitution.

Matthew J. Franck is retired from Princeton University, where he was a lecturer in Politics and associate director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions. He is also a senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, a contributing editor of Public Discourse, and professor emeritus of political science at Radford University.
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