Linda Greenhouse lays out the possibility for change on the Supreme Court.
Two professors from George Mason University School of Law in
Virginia recently proposed that Congress should cure the Supreme Court of its “cult of celebrity” by passing a statute to require that all opinions be anonymous. Unsigned opinions would “provide the justices with incentives to behave more like traditional judges and less like publicity-hungry politicians,” Craig S. Lerner and Nelson Lund wrote.
Ain't gonna happen.
Completely out of the question, of course, but a useful thought experiment as we head into yet another nomination season. It took just hours after Justice Stevens’s announcement on April 9 for the editors of National Review Online to proclaim: “The question for conservatives will be not whether but how to oppose Obama’s nominee.”
