He then began eagerly anticipating his own biography, supplying a list of men "whom I deem wholly qualified to write my judicial biography".
In "Super Chief," a judicial biography of the Warren Court, Professor Bernard Schwartz, of the New York University Law School, describes what happened next: "The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed [the district court], but stayed its order thirty days to permit the School Board [to appeal]..
Grisham's lawyers and judges may be a bit over the top, but they are often closer to the real thing than the hagiographies of our "sainted" judges that pass for judicial biography.
In "Super Chief," a judicial biography of the Warren Court, Professor Bernard Schwartz, of the New York University Law School, describes what happened next: "The Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed [the district court], but stayed its order thirty days to permit the School Board [to appeal]...
Judicial biography lies at the intersection of two dark alleys: a corner where judicial secrecy meets authorized biography.
They have rattled off 3,500 digits of pi and read biographies of judicial nominees.
"Scholar Steals Frankfurter Papers," the political columnist Jack Anderson wrote on September 14, 1973, which is how the public first learned of the heist, and which is also the point at which a story about the ill consequences of judicial secrecy and authorized biography turns into a story about the ill consequences of anonymous sources.
Douglas's unabashed dishonesty is one of two revelations that give life to "Wild Bill, Bruce Allenn Murphy's tirelessly researched biography of the liberal judicial icon.
But while Ms. Kagan's biography may be clear, her judicial philosophy is not.
