Boiling the Frog

Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America, by Cass R. Sunstein (Basic, 281 pp., $26)

FROM all appearances, Cass Sunstein’s latest book must have been rushed into print to capitalize on potential book buyers’ attention to the initial Supreme Court vacancy that developed this past summer. Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is by all accounts a brilliant legal scholar. But Radicals in Robes is a slapdash and highly partisan effort that does not do justice to his reputation.

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Ed Whelan

Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.

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Radicals in Robes: Why Extreme Right-Wing Courts Are Wrong for America, by Cass R. Sunstein (Basic, 281 pp., $26)

FROM all appearances, Cass Sunstein’s latest book must have been rushed into print to capitalize on potential book buyers’ attention to the initial Supreme Court vacancy that developed this past summer. Sunstein, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, is by all accounts a brilliant legal scholar. But Radicals in Robes is a slapdash and highly partisan effort that does not do justice to his reputation.

About the Author

Ed Whelan

Ed Whelan holds the Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and is a regular contributor to National Review’s Bench Memos blog.