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The Politics of Federal Courts in a Time of 2023
I taught federal courts this semester, which in some ways is actually an even more pressure point class for this conversation. They want to know why are they being taught that the law is impartial when they can see with their own eyes that it's nakedly partisan? And I guess I have sort of a two part answer and you guys should grade it because I don't get graded enough. Although the Texas legislature is trying to change that. OK. So what I say is like, you know, part of why I think the institutional focus is so important is because institutional norms and priorities shift in ways that if you didn't look at the institution as such, you would miss, or at least you