Judicial supremacy and its discontents.

From: Constitutional Commentary | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information 
   [T]he federal judiciary is supreme in the exposition of the law 
   of the Constitution.... (1) 
 
   The decision [Brown v. Board of Education] tortured the 
   Constitution--the South will torture the decision. (2) 
 
   Will nobody defend judicial supremacy anymore? (3) 
 
   The Supreme Court has made its grab for power. The question 
   is: will we let them get away with it? (4)

This is a remarkably quiet period in the public life of the Constitution. It is not a quiet time for constitutional law professors, of course, for whom there is always a crisis around the bend, a ...

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