U.S. Supreme Court
Apr. 7, 2012
Executive and judicial sparring: unwise, but not uncommon
Perhaps Obama should have kept quiet, but he's hardly the first president to speak his mind. By Douglas W. Kmiec of Pepperdine University School of Law
Recent presidential observations from professor ... I mean, President Barack Obama have come under increased scrutiny. Presidents have taken on the Supreme Court before. Teddy Roosevelt had a nonstop complaint against the judiciary for tolerating monopoly; cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt threatened to rotor root the hardened judicial arteries to rescue his New Deal, that is the until the first Roberts, Justice Owen Roberts, became the first justice whose change of mind saved ni...
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