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Katharina Pistor • The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
Summoning the attorneys back to his chambers that same evening, however, Hutcheson handed down his decision—the decision Fortas had forecast. Had Johnson’s attorneys asked “that something affirmative be done,” the matter would be more complicated, Hutcheson said, but “if you merely ask that” the injunction be stayed, “I can’t do it. I am only one
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The democratic party apparatus is largely run by lawyers with JDs. The politicians, many of the staffers, most of the non profit executives, and many of the thinkiest think tankers have JDs. It is central to law education in the US that policy legitimacy is derived from the process that creates the policy, there is no focus on outcomes. Its... See more
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Fortas felt confident that the jurisdictional grounds would persuade a single Supreme Court Justice—particularly the Justice with administrative responsibility for the Fifth Circuit, Hugo Black—to do what a single Circuit Court judge would not: grant their plea for a stay of the injunction and thereby allow Johnson’s name to go on the ballot.
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