Volume 31, Number 17 · November 8, 1984
Reagan's Justice
By Ronald Dworkin
If President Reagan is reelected and serves four more years he is likely to make several appointments to the Supreme Court beyond the one he has already made. (Five of the present justices are aged seventy-five or over.) His justices would then dominate the Court for a generation, and through their decisions for longer than that. Reagan's recent appointments of academic lawyers to the circuit courts of appeal—those just below the Supreme Court in the federal system—provide an important clue to the kind of choice he is likely to make, given the chance, for the Supreme Court itself.
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