SCOTUS Is Failing America, Court Scholar And Law Dean Concludes

“The [Supreme] Court has frequently failed, throughout American history, at its most important tasks, at its most important moments,” former Supreme Court attorney and dean of the University of California at Irvine, Erwin Chemerinsky writes in a new book, “The Case Against the Supreme Court.” After four decades working with and studying the Court, Chemerinsky writes in his 300-plus-page takedown, “We should realize that this is an emperor that truly has no clothes. For too long, we have treated the Court is if they are the high priests of the law, or at least as if they are the smartest and best lawyers in society,” the Washington Post reports. The article notes that Chemerinsky, a liberal by almost any definition, has lost his last two cases before the Court, but Chemerinsky maintains his book is not liberal “whining” and that one thing he recommends – term limits for the justices – has been embraced by some conservatives.