Sorry to be a little late with this — as a historian, I’m not very good with dates — but yesterday actually marked the 80th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision, the so-called “flag salute case” of West Virginia v.
The excerpted passage supports the observation from one of my law school professors that Jackson was “probably the finest prose stylist to sit on the Court.” Perhaps not coincidentally, he was also (I believe) the last person to make it to the Court without a law degree.
I agree with writing vs law degree. In addition to writing a novel, I own a newspaper (The Birmingham Medical News.) I edit every word that goes in the paper, and in addition to destroying adverbs, I take out anything that is redundant. Tim O'Brien recently said that Jack Smith's speaking indictment was Hemingway, not Faulkner, which I appreciated.
The excerpted passage supports the observation from one of my law school professors that Jackson was “probably the finest prose stylist to sit on the Court.” Perhaps not coincidentally, he was also (I believe) the last person to make it to the Court without a law degree.
Not coincidental at all
I agree with writing vs law degree. In addition to writing a novel, I own a newspaper (The Birmingham Medical News.) I edit every word that goes in the paper, and in addition to destroying adverbs, I take out anything that is redundant. Tim O'Brien recently said that Jack Smith's speaking indictment was Hemingway, not Faulkner, which I appreciated.
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Thanks so much! Really appreciate the support and the kind words