Download This PaperThe Most Senile Justice?
Supreme Court Micro-Symposium, Forthcoming
4 Pages Posted: 6 Jul 2007 Last revised: 2 Aug 2015
Date Written: August 1, 2015
Abstract
Building on the work of historian David Garrow, this paper attempts to measure the true extent of the problem of judicial decrepitude among the members of the U.S. Supreme Court since the high court's inception in 1789. After presenting the relevant data, the author concludes (contra Garrow and others) that the incidence of judicial decrepitude is relatively infrequent and rare.
Keywords: judicial decreptitude, U.S. Supreme Court
JEL Classification: J26, K49
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Guerra-Pujol, F. E., The Most Senile Justice? (August 1, 2015). Supreme Court Micro-Symposium, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=998673 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.998673
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