President Obama’s Memoir Includes Virtually Nothing About the Supreme Court (Update)
President Obama’s Memoir Includes Virtually Nothing About the Supreme Court (Update)I purchased the kindle of President Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land. [Update: This memoir only captures his presidency through 2011. I removed references to the absence of any discussion of cases decided after 2011]. As part of research for my own book project, I searched for several key words. “Court,” “Justice,” and the names of each member of the Court. I was struck by how little Obama focused on the judiciary in his 750-page memoir. There was very, very little to find. What was there? Two sentences on Justice Alito’s Ledbetter decision: As discrimination cases go, it should have been a slam dunk, but in 2007, defying all common sense, the Supreme Court had disallowed the lawsuit. According to Justice Samuel Alito, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act required Ledbetter to have filed her claim within 180 days…