Volume 54, Number 20 · December 20, 2007

The Court: How 'So Few Have So Quickly Changed So Much'

By Anthony Lewis
The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
by Jeffrey Toobin

Doubleday, 369 pp., $27.95

At the end of his first Supreme Court term, in July 2006, Chief Justice John Roberts was interviewed by Jeffrey Rosen for a book on the Court. Roberts emphasized the aim of having the justices subordinate their individual preferences to an effort to achieve unanimity. 'I think it's bad, long-term,' he said,



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