Document Type
Review
Publication Date
1990
Abstract
Despite all that has been written about the bitter struggle initiated by President Reagan's nomination of Robert Bork to a seat on the Supreme Court, its most remarkable feature, that it was waged over a judicial appointment, has drawn relatively little comment. Two hundred years after the Philadelphia Convention, Hamilton's "least dangerous" branch - least dangerous because it would have "no influence over either the sword or the purse, no direction either of the strength or the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever"'-had come to occupy so important a place in the nation's political life that the question of its future course was capable of generating a controversy more intense and more divisive than all but a very few contests for political office.
Recommended Citation
Sandalow, Terrance. "The Supreme Court in Politics." Review of Battle for Justice: How the Bork Nomination Shook America, by E. Bronner. Mich. L. Rev. 88 (1990): 1300-25.
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