jurisprudence

Legal scholars, however, say the recent criticism of provisional sentences ignores more than a decade of legislation and jurisprudence aimed at toughening up a legal system that can take years to reach a final verdict.

Yet to the extent we have an imperial presidency and emasculated Congress, it is a function of our politics—not Supreme Court jurisprudence.

But the opposite is also possible: Strengthening executive authority has been an important theme of some conservative jurisprudence since the 1980s, and the Supreme Court could further bolster presidential power.

His memoir, “Life, Law & Liberty,” sheds light on his own experiences on and off the court but leaves its central figure’s jurisprudence still mainly a mystery.

“I did not know that senior economic officials’ at the Treasury and the Federal Reserve expertise went all the way to constitutional jurisprudence,” he says.