Justice Kennedy has been off the Court for about seven years. His new memoir will be released on October 14. Last year it was reported that the memoir would be a two-volume set, but now it seems to have been whittled down to a single 352-page tome. I imagine the publisher took this step to recoup whatever advance they paid some years ago.

I have very mixed feelings about this book. One the one hand, I am truly curious how Justice Kennedy--long the center of the Court--decided cases. On the other hand, I truly don't care. Nothing he says will have any bearing on the direction of constitutional law, and for that I am grateful. Justice Barrett wrote a pithy book called Listening to the Law, which explains how she tries to figure out the objective meaning of the Constitution. Justice Kennedy'

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