From laboratories of democracy to laboratories of Trump

Let the states try it

Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a metaphor contained in his 1932 minority opinion in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, laboratories of democracy. The Brandeis commentary spoke about “one of the happy incidents of the federal system,” one that permits states to “try novel social and economic experiment…

National Perspective: Let the states try it

JUPITER, Fla. — Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a metaphor contained in his 1932 minority opinion in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, laboratories of democracy. The Brandeis commentary spoke about “one of the happy incidents of the federal system,” one that permits states to “try novel social and eco…

From laboratories of democracy to laboratories of Trump

JUPITER, Fla. – Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a metaphor contained in his 1932 minority…

Shribman: Let the states try it

NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE JUPITER, Fla. — Almost a century ago, in a famous Supreme Court dissent, Justice Louis Brandeis provided an enduring definition of the role of states in the American political system. They were, in a metaphor contained in his 1932 minority opinion in New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, laboratories of democracy. The Brandeis […]