The Ashwander Rules

<p>About The Ashwander Rules<br /><br />This project began over a decade ago as a napkin rumination: what would Louis Brandeis think of today's US Supreme Court?<br /><br />If he was alive Brandeis' sense of propriety would constrain him from any direct comment so I imagined how me might address the question as a novelist (in a private letter he once expressed an interest in trying his hand at fiction).<br /><br />The result is The Ashwander Rules a parable of the modern Supreme Court in which a secret Israeli Mossad operation in Washington D.C. works to save a fictional chief justice from assassination at the hands of domestic terrorists.<br /><br />In the spirit of Brandeis' Supreme Court opinion writing The Ashwander Rules is an effort to educate the public -- and remind the Court -- about the importance of judicial restraint especially as it relates to questions of constitutional law.<br /><br />The narrative also introduces a non-fiction alternative to two-party politics called the American Majority Party www.american-majority.org which is an internet adaptation of a good government initiative organized by Brandeis in 1903.</p>