Dumbing Down the Courts Author|Ross Honeywill and Chris Norton Washington MDIV DD President/CEO of

Washington MDIV DD President/CEO of Promise Keepers

They have two adult children and three grandchildren

Jon Hassler author educator playwright and painter began his writing career at the age of thirty-seven completing fifteen works of fiction and two works of nonfiction

Simon Shea - a retired professor of English at a small Minnesota college - has begun to forget things and also experiences a few dangerous lapses in judgment

This is his first children's book

Dumbing Down the Courts Author|Ross Honeywill and Chris Norton Washington MDIV DD President/CEO ofJudges have enormous power. They determine whom we can marry whether we can own firearms whether the government can mandate that we buy certain products and how we define "personhood." But who gets to occupy these powerful positions? Up until now there has been little systematic study of what type of judges get confirmed. In his rigorous yet readable style John Lott analyzes both historical accounts and large amounts of data to see how the