The Judiciary's Class War
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The judiciary, requiring a postgraduate degree, is the one branch of government that is reserved for the Front-Row Kids. Correspondingly, since the Warren era, the Supreme Court has basically served as an engine for vindicating Front-Row preferences, from allowing birth control and abortion, to marginalizing religion in the public space, to legislative apportionment and libel law, and beyond. Professor Glenn Reynolds describes this problem in detail and offers some suggestions for making things better.
Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Glenn Reynolds is the Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Tennessee. He has written numerous books and articles on space law and policy, and has served as Executive Vice President of the National Space Society, and on a White House advisory committee on space policy.
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The Judiciary's Class War - Glenn Harlan Reynolds
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America’s New Class Division
Our Front Row Judiciary
The Elite of the Elite
Front Row Opinions
Bringing Diversity to the Judiciary
A Supreme Court That Looks Like America
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IN THE WAKE of the 2016 presidential election, we heard a lot about America’s division into two mutually hostile camps: a largely coastal, urban party run by educated elites and a largely rural and suburban flyover country
party composed of people who did not attend elite schools and who do not see themselves as dependent on those who did. This divide is more fundamental than mere partisan identification, as there are Democrats and Republicans in both groups.
One of the best formulations of this division comes from photographer Chris Arnade, who has spent years documenting the lives of America’s forgotten classes. In his characterization, America is split between the Front-Row Kids,
who did well in school, moved into managerial or financial or political jobs, and see themselves as the natural rulers of their fellow citizens, and the Back-Row Kids,
who placed less emphasis on school, and who resent the pretensions, and bossiness, of the Front-Row Kids.
I don’t want to rehash all the postelection discussion on America’s class divide, but while teaching constitutional law after the election, something occurred to me: While the Back-Row Kids can elect whomever they want as their president, senators, or representatives, there is one branch of the federal