Thomas Reviewed
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A biography of Justice Clarence Thomas has just been released from Doubleday. The Washington Post offers an adaptation, the first chapter, and a review of Supreme Discomfort:The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, by
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Do Judges Change Courts or Do Courts Change Judges?
Linda Greenhouse, who has covered the U.S. Supreme Court for the New York Times for 29 years, says the institution of the Supreme Court changes the justices' opinions over time. An article in The Daily Northwestern describing her speech to the League of Women Voters of Evanston quotes Greenhouse as saying "Justices have an impact on the institution, obviously. But the impact of the institution on the individual justice is a bit more elusive, less obvious but not less important." Greenhouse also speculates that justices whose lives were uprooted by moving to Washington may be more open to changing views than those who had experience within the beltway.
