Bench Memos

Preempting the Peremptory

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The “smart Adam” at the New York Times (Liptak, not Cohen) offers a deeply flawed argument against the use of peremptory challenges to potential jurors in criminal cases.  Patterico has the goods.

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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