Courting Controversy: Justices’ Side Commentaries Undermine the Supreme Court

Courting Controversy: Justices’ Side Commentaries Undermine the Supreme Court

Below is my column in The Hill on the controversy this month over extrajudicial comments made by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. These are only the latest such comments by justices that became distractions during the discussion of pending cases before the Court. Here is the column: This month, the crowd at the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture was electrified as a speaker called on the lawyers in the audience t…