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« 100,000,000 Victims | Main | A Paul McCartney Renaissance » June 13, 2007America's Philosopher-King
"In other words, Anthony Kennedy doesn't much care whether his abstractions are true; the important thing for him is that he wants them to be true. As a lawyer in private practice, the future Justice Louis Brandeis was famous for having inaugurated the "Brandeis Brief," a long compendium of statistics measuring the empirical effects of various pieces of social legislation on real American workers. Kennedy, by contrast, has inpired the proliferation of the anti-Brandeis Brief, which might be called the Kennedy Brief. In a Kennedy Brief, lawyers on both sides fall over themselves to court Kennedy's favor by repeatedly citing the opinions of Justice Kennedy."Jeffrey Rosen's ode to Justice Kennedy's jurisprudence in the latest issue of The New Republic leaves no holes (holds) barred - which is to say that it's well worth the read. Posted by Seth Zirkle at June 13, 2007 07:51 PM Comments"No holes barred" is not the phrase you mean, I think. I believe you mean "No holds barred" which means "without restrictions" and comes from wrestling matches where no holds are disallowed. If you Google "no holds barred" you get its origins and meanings. If you Google "no holes barred" you get the phrase imbedded in blogs and such where people are using it instead of the "real" thing they mean. Posted by: mary at June 13, 2007 11:51 PM | permalink Post a comment |
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