A giant of the law overshadows “Shorty’s” hearing

Unlike Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and other defenders of the late and unlamented Jim Crow on the Senate Judiciary committee, I come to praise Thurgood Marshall – not to sully him. It is perhaps a tribute to the qualifications of Elena Kagan to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court that diehard foes like Cornyn have [...]