Primates & Judicial Philosophy

Posted by jns on 21 October 2005

Despite my proddings, some of you may still not read Bob Park’s “What’s New”. But that’s okay, since I tend to put the best bits here anyway.

Recently he solicited readers’ questions that might be suitable for appropriately probing the thoughts and positions of Supreme Court nominees regarding science. This week he revealed “the question that best captured the consensus of our readers’ views in the fewest number of words was from Abi Soffer at SLAC:”

How does being descended from a monkey affect your judicial philosophy?