{"id":13486,"date":"2014-09-29T10:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2014-09-29T10:35:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T15:35:40","slug":"wapo-supreme-court-fails-frequently-professor-writes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13486","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Supreme Court fails frequently, professor writes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/law-school-dean-to-the-supreme-court-this-love-affair-is-over\/2014\/09\/28\/c258a506-45a4-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html\">Supreme Court fails frequently, professor writes<\/a> by Robert Barnes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After nearly four decades as a lawyer and 30 years teaching would-be lawyers, and after writing a leading textbook on constitutional law and helping establish a law school, and after standing before the justices five times on behalf of his clients, Erwin Chemerinsky has fallen out of love with the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>Hard.<\/p>\n<p>His break-up note runs for 342 pages and is called \u201cThe Case Against the Supreme Court.\u201d The book makes its regretful message clear at the very beginning:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Supreme Court fails frequently, professor writes by Robert Barnes: After nearly four decades as a lawyer and 30 years teaching would-be lawyers, and after writing a leading textbook on constitutional law and helping establish a law school, and after &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13486\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13487,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13486\/revisions\/13487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}