Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens rarely makes public appearances in Washington, D.C., outside the Court, but he made an exception Thursday, speaking before a large crowd at the Newseum‘s Knight Center. He even made a bit of news, revealing that if he had his druthers, new Supreme Court justices from now on would be sworn in at the Court, not at the White House, to symbolize the Court’s independence.
Stevens, 88, was at the Newseum to moderate a discussion on the 1803 landmark decision Marbury v. Madison with panelists Clifford Sloan, his former law clerk and currently a partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and David McKean, staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sloan and McKean are authors of a new book on the ruling, called “The Great Decision: Jefferson, Adams, Marshall and the Battle for the Supreme Court.”
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