As so often is the case when big figures bow out, the sycophants fill the air with threnodies to their virtues. The evolution of the ruler into the tyrant is, as often, accomplished by the devolution of the citizen into the subject. One would have hoped that the surveys on Mr. Warren’s performance would at least have acknowledged the view profoundly and passionately felt by men of great training and conscience, that he was a disaster to the Constitution of the United States, to the highest standards of jurisprudence, and to the federal system: which is a lot for one Justice to be.
Here is how it was recently put by one scholar (Professor McClellan of Emory University, in Modern Age):
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