A noted legal historian described fifty-five-year-old Jeffrey Rosen as “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator.” Rosen is both a renowned legal scholar and President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, in Philadelphia. He has authored biographies of two renowned American jurists: William Howard Taft (who earlier was President of the United States) and Louis D. Brandeis (the first Jewish justice on the U.S. Supreme Court). In addition, he has an extensive background as a journalist, having written for The New Republic, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine.
Quote: “They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis’s is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But, yes, the idea that because he was Jewish he would rule a particular way was an ugly undercurrent of the hearings, which resonates with current claims that a judge can’t be impartial because of his or her background or ethnicity or race. It’s, I guess, a small comfort that in the end the Brandeis vote wasn’t close.”
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