Reasonable Disagreements

Reasonable Disagreements: Hearing The Worst Of It

Have the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings outlived their usefulness?

Reasonable Disagreements•March 28, 2022
Reasonable Disagreements: Hearing The Worst Of It
Days after the Senate Judiciary Committee finished its confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Richard and Adam debate whether these hearings are a tradition that has outlived its usefulness.
 

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Richard A. Epstein

Richard A. Epstein

Adam J. White

Adam J. White

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