The divider
The American Prospect
by Scott Lemieux
07/26/07
In a commencement speech he gave at Georgetown Law School last year, the newly confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts asserted that one of his primary goals was to create more unanimity on the Supreme Court. … After a truncated first term in which there were more unanimous opinions than usual, this seemed very possible to some observers of the Court. … For these scholars, the second Roberts term must have been highly sobering. Not only did the new appointments, Roberts and Alito, turn out to be the doctrinaire conservatives everything about their records (as opposed to the vague banalities of their confirmation hearing rhetoric) suggested they would be, a far higher than usual number of cases were decided by a 5-4 margin...
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_divider
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alito
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Lemieux
by Scott Lemieux
07/26/07
In a commencement speech he gave at Georgetown Law School last year, the newly confirmed Chief Justice John Roberts asserted that one of his primary goals was to create more unanimity on the Supreme Court. … After a truncated first term in which there were more unanimous opinions than usual, this seemed very possible to some observers of the Court. … For these scholars, the second Roberts term must have been highly sobering. Not only did the new appointments, Roberts and Alito, turn out to be the doctrinaire conservatives everything about their records (as opposed to the vague banalities of their confirmation hearing rhetoric) suggested they would be, a far higher than usual number of cases were decided by a 5-4 margin...
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_divider
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Roberts
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Alito
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Supreme+Court
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Scott+Lemieux
rudkla - 27. Jul, 11:39
