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Harry Feder
Harry Feder is a former attorney. He clerked for the Hon. Stewart G. Pollock of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.
Vote Now or Forever Hold Your Peace
By Harry FederTwo recent books by a pair of lawyer/journalists attempt to help the general public understand our convoluted state-specific system of voting, the barriers to real democratic voice, and what we need to do to increase voter participation. They are both useful almanacs for how voting works, how to actually vote, and the barriers placed inhibiting participation.
Heather McGhee’s The Sum of Us
By Harry FederHeather McGhee, in her book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together, nobly aspires to a brighter American future of a functioning multiracial democracy through the use of a shopworn Enlightenment trick—rational evidence-based appeals to material self-interest.
The Most Dangerous Branch?
By Harry FederIn his pre-retirement plaintive wail for institutional relevance, The Authority of the Court and the Perils of Politics, Justice Stephen Breyer laments that education is failing in its task to engender in the general populace an understanding, love, and respect for the rule of law and the pronouncements of the law’s final arbiters, the Supreme Court.
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