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...almost as much as that last sentence did, lectures on the Supreme Court and insights on individual judges are intriguing. Many students will agree with Horwitz’s slight political biases (left-leaning, where else?) and enjoy his jabs at justices Scalia and Thomas. Past students recall Horwitz asking them to “be like Princeton students and actually do the reading”—there’s a lot of it but it is very useful, and will enable you to chime into abortion debates with enlightened comments like, “Actually...
...wrote that the class “shouldn’t overlap particularly” with either of the two undergrad courses focusing on the Constitution that Law School faculty members are teaching this term. Morton J. Horwitz, who holds the Warren chair in American legal history, is teaching a Historical Study-A course tracing the Constitution from 1788 to the present. And Richard H. Fallon, who holds the Tyler chair in constitutional law, is teaching Government 1510, “American Constitutional...
...symbolic level the chief justice represents the Supreme Court on ceremonial occasion,” Horwitz said. “So the chief justice has a larger potential public voice. But if I were a senator it would not fundamentally change my vote if he were nominated to be an associate justice or chief justice...
...Horwitz said that, although the chief’s additional powers are important, they are not as great as they first seem...
...youngest chief justice since John Adams, Class of 1755, nominated John Marshall, then just 45 years old, in 1801. Roberts also has relatively little experience on the bench, having served as an appeals court judge for just three years and written only 47 opinions. But Horwitz said that what is so unique, historically, about the Roberts nomination is his lack of prior political activity...