Ethics

Sandefur on Clarence Thomas

By Ed Brayton

Timothy Sandefur has written a review of Henry Mark Holzer's The Supreme Court Opinions of Clarence Thomas. The review is going to appear in the NYU Journal of Law and Liberty, but you can get it on SSRN. It's particularly interesting, I think, because while Sandefur is an admirer of Thomas in many ways, he is also a staunch critic of much of his jurisprudence. That allows for an objectivity that is missing from most discussions of Thomas and a seriousness that avoids all the silly political arguments about Thomas ("he doesn't ask questions" or "he's just Scalia's lapdog" or other such superficial nonsense) and focuses instead on the substance of his views on constitutional interpretation.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 29, 2008 (boomark / email).