Trashing the Supreme Court

Ronald Dworkin

  • The Bretheren: Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong
    Secker, 467 pp, £7.95, March 1980, ISBN 0 436 58122 1

This is a great best-seller in America. But it is a deplorable book – mostly silly gossip about the various Justices of the United States Supreme Court in the period from 1969 to 1976, supposedly taken from internal court memoranda never intended to be published, and from off-the-record and not-for-attribution talks with former law clerks about the Justices and with the Justices about each other.

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