Bench Memos

More on Ms. Smith

A friend writes to double-dog dare me to point out that, given the scanty importance of the issues in Ms. Smith’s case, the justices may, when they have stripped them down to the bare essentials, discover that the whole affair was a big bust.

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.
Exit mobile version