thenewrepublic: In her first year on the Court, she wrote three dissents, two of which combine Scalia’s gift for the sharp aphorism with John Roberts’s powers of analytical dissection. But she also has something more: an ability to puncture her colleagues’ bloodless abstractions and tendentious arguments, and to explain the constitutional stakes in plain language that all citizens can understand. Jeffrey Rosen, “This Year’s Biggest Surprise At The Supreme Court: Elena Kagan’s Prose” If only we could hire her to edit academic journals …

thenewrepublic:

In her first year on the Court, she wrote three dissents, two of which combine Scalia’s gift for the sharp aphorism with John Roberts’s powers of analytical dissection. But she also has something more: an ability to puncture her colleagues’ bloodless abstractions and tendentious arguments, and to explain the constitutional stakes in plain language that all citizens can understand.

Jeffrey Rosen, “This Year’s Biggest Surprise At The Supreme Court: Elena Kagan’s Prose”

If only we could hire her to edit academic journals …

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