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Velvel on National Affairs
THIS PROGRESSIVE BLOG SETS FORTH THE PERSONAL VIEWS OF THE DEAN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL OF LAW ON NATIONAL EVENTS. OCCASIONALLY, THE RESPONSES TO HIS VIEWS OR OTHER INTERESTING ARTICLES ARE ALSO POSTED.

...This is the angriest book -- by far the angriest book -- that one has ever read. If Thomas were not a Justice, his book would be called a polemic, or a screed. To have written such a book sixteen years into the continuing honor of being a Justice of the Supreme Court is more than the word “amazing� can signify. There are, roughly speaking, about one million lawyers in this country. Nine of them, or one in about every 111,000 are on the Supreme Court. That’s less than one one-thousandth of one percent of them, if my arithmetic is right. There are 300 million people in this country, and only the same nine of them are Supreme Court Justices. That’s less than one three hundred thousandths of one percent, if my arithmetic is right. With an accomplishment like this, Thomas is angry? One thinks there must be something fundamentally wrong with this guy....

This is the audio version of Dean Lawrence R. Velvel's blog, www.velvelonnationalaffairs.com
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