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Article: The court as interior decorator. (Judge Russell Clark orders capital improvements for Kansas CIty schools)
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- January 22, 1990
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The Court as Interior Decorator
WHEN ROBERT BORK has been re-nominated to the Supreme Court and White House strategists prepare to transform rarefied debates about jurisprudence into arguments comprehensible to the electorate, they might start with the case of Jenkins v. Missouri, a matter currently before the High Court. As well as any important case in recent memory, Jenkins reminds us that there is a still-potent sector of the federal judiciary that has lost sight of any conceivable constitutional or prudential constraints.
Jenkins is a 1970s-style school-desegregation case of a sort one doesn't see much any more only because "white flight" caused by ...