Unusually high judicial vacancy levels coupled with unprecedented workloads are burdening federal district courts like never before. The President and Congress need to act now to fill these seats.
GRAND INQUESTS: The Historic Impeachments of Justice Samuel Chase and President Andrew Johnson. By William H. Rehnquist. Morrow (currently out of print). 278 pp.
As long as there have been poor people in the United States - and that is always - state and local governments have adopted isolationist policies to keep them out. But over the last 50 years the United States Supreme Court has regularly blocked these efforts by declaring such laws unconstitutional.
