Victoria Nourse is Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Congressional Studies at Georgetown Law School.
Professor Nourse has written a book of comprehensive, devastating
criticism of how judges, including Supreme Court Justices,
interpret (or pretend to interpret) congressional enactments. The
canons of statutory construction, plain meaning, textualism,
literalism, originalism—all these crutches fall, felled by her
cannons.
*Richard A. Posner, author of Divergent Paths: The Academy and
the Judiciary*
Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy is important reading for
anyone seriously interested in understanding statutes, and
especially so for judges. Their ignorance of/indifference to
Congress’s processes is an affront both to the means by which most
law is created today, and to the democratic values implicit in its
emergence from the actions of an elected body.
*Peter L. Strauss, Columbia Law School*
Nourse convinces that America’s judges, law professors, and lawyers
know perilously little about the most important branch of
government—the United States Congress—and spells out the
consequences this gap in our collective knowledge have for
governance. Helping to fill that gap, this accessible book takes on
those who practice ‘petty textualism’ while offering an approach to
statutory interpretation that is both more professionally
satisfying and consistent with our representative democracy.
Brava!
*William N. Eskridge, Jr., Yale Law School*
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