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...crowd of 40 onlookers plus a slew of standing stragglers peered in from the hallway as Beneficial Professor of Law Charles Fried, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, and Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Richard H. Fallon traded friendly quips...
Fellow panelist Fallon echoed Dershowitz’s concern about lifetime appointments, advocating term limits and arguing that potential justices should be as candid about their views as possible...
...seems to me a judge with a completely open mind would be a judge with a completely empty mind,” Fallon said. “I don’t think it’s appropriate to say that judges and justices should not have agendas...
...There is also a sense among the Justices that the chief justice is at least first among equals and deserves a special hearing when trying to forge a consensus on divisive issues,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail. “Not every chief justice succeeds in putting a personal stamp on the Court, but the chief justice has a better chance of doing so than any of the other Justices...
...Swapping Roberts for Rehnquist thus leaves the Court’s ideological balance pretty much intact,” Fallon wrote in an e-mail. “O’Connor was pretty conservative, but she was right in the center of the Supreme Court on which she served...