Palin: The GOP’s LeBron James?

Back in 1979, my late law professor, Robert Cover, wrote a much-cited piece in the New York Times twining Supreme Court Justices and baseball players.  For example, John Marshall was the judicial version of Babe Ruth:  “Both Marshall and Ruth transformed the games they played.  Both became symbols of their institutions, and both are understood to be originators of the professions’ modern age.”  Other pairings were more subtle, like Earl Warren and Yogi Berra: “Both Warren and Berra were enormously effective performers on teams with many stars. . . . Both would frequently swing at bad pitches, but both were capable of hitting them for extra bases, especially in the clutch.”

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