The decision of Fred Vinson, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, to bar Federal Judges from serving as NMT judges – a decision largely motivated by a desire to avoid the kind of backlog of cases caused by Justice Jackson’s tenure at the IMT[7] – meant that NMT cases were presided over by state court judges, jurists lacking the prestige and often the competence of their federal court counterparts.[8] Congress’s dreadfully short-sighted decision to… [read post]