"Rarely has a federal judge spoken so frankly and personally to the President of the United States -- and perhaps never to the president who appointed him to office," writes Professor N. Kent Newmyer in this insightful article about the dissenting judge in U.S. v. Bollman. You will be surprised when you discover who this judge and the President were, but you will not be surprised that Newmyer is talking about a case in the D. C. Circuit.
