Name: Is the Supreme Court Too Supreme for America?
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Description: Benjamin H. Barton, author of the new work “Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice,” discusses the history of the Supreme Court and in particular those who presently preside.

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Some of the greatest minds in American history are connected with the Supreme Court. But looking at the current Supreme Court, are these great minds too enlightened or too cloistered to properly serve the American people? Benjamin H. Barton, author of the new work “Credentialed Court: Inside the Cloistered, Elite World of American Justice,” discusses the history of the Supreme Court and in particular those who presently preside.

Benjamin H. Barton is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and has written four other books on the subject of law and justice, including “Fixing Law Schools,” “Rebooting Justice,” “Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession,” and “The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System.” He is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, ABA Journal, and TIME magazine. He also spent a year as a Fullbright Scholar teaching comparative law at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia.

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