Miscellaneous

Letter to the editor

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

In today's Washington Post:

Dana Milbank's Feb. 28 column on Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker operates on the premise that the winner of any Supreme Court argument should be whoever can best appeal to the justices' sympathies regardless of the merits of the case. Such an approach is more appropriate for coverage of television game shows than the law.

The Post would do better to treat its readers like grownups and have its Supreme Court reporting done by journalists who don't "yawn" at questions about the appropriateness of jury instructions.

-- Theodore H. Frank

Washington

The writer is director of the American Enterprise Institute's Legal Center for the Public Interest.

Full post as published by Overlawyered on March 08, 2008 (boomark / email).