Dumbing Down the Courts Author|Ross Honeywill and Chris Norton Simon Shea - a retired

Simon Shea - a retired professor of English at a small Minnesota college - has begun to forget things and also experiences a few dangerous lapses in judgment

She has worked for more than twenty years in public education and holds advanced degrees with an emphasis in School Counseling

A veteran of stage plays Ruby has worked at a radio station as a co-host and has appeared in newspapers around the world

An avid boater he pilots his boat Armagnac along the Atlantic coast each spring and fall

Dumbing Down the Courts Author|Ross Honeywill and Chris Norton Simon Shea - a retiredJudges have enormous power. They determine whom we can marry whether we can own firearms whether the government can mandate that we buy certain products and how we define "personhood." But who gets to occupy these powerful positions? Up until now there has been little systematic study of what type of judges get confirmed. In his rigorous yet readable style John Lott analyzes both historical accounts and large amounts of data to see how the