Stephen Wermiel
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Steve Wermiel is a professor of practice at American University Washington College of Law where he has taught a seminar on the Supreme Court for nearly three decades, in addition to constitutional law subjects. He is co-author of the definitive biography, Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion, published in 2010.
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The strange case of the superfluous sentence
Some sentences reproach without a single accusatory word. “The captain was sober today” impugns by implication. The officer who logs this superfluous statement damns the captain further with the surrounding entries that omit it.