Abstract
Ben Barton’s recent paper concludes that the members of the current Court are more “cloistered and detached” than at any other point in the Court’s history. His findings are bound to renew calls for the appointment of politicians to the Court; but I argue that remedying the perceived deficit of life experience and “practical wisdom” by appointing persons currently or formerly active in partisan politics would likely not deliver the claimed benefits and might affirmatively harm the Court as an institution.
Recommended Citation
Brannon P. Denning,
The Case Against Appointing Politicians to the Supreme Court,
64 Fla. L. Rev.
31
(2012).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/flr/vol64/iss5/18