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...historic standards, the Rehnquist years have been collegial, but the public arguments have grown ever fiercer in recent years. Every Justice feels entitled to pen his or her own dissent or concurring opinion to every paragraph written by the majority or the minority. It drives lower courts insane. By now, the Justices may know one another too well. Not since the 1820s has the court gone so long without getting any new blood. Of course, they know Roberts as well, though it may be his knowledge of them that proves a little unsettling. He has studied each of them closely...
...appalling image today is the direct consequence of the systematic repression of basic civil liberties by governments throughout our history. This was first done under the guise of national security. My parents' generation lost their right to vote and to criticize the government because their rulers claimed that dissent would leave the country vulnerable to India. Then repression was done in the name of Islam. My generation lost the right to romance without fear of harassment, and the ability to express ourselves in theater or dance, because our rulers claimed they were protecting us from hell itself...
...Americans with Disabilities Act and requiring courtrooms to be accessible to those with physical disabilities. And most famously, she voted in 2000 to step into Florida's disputed presidential balloting and stop the recount, giving the election to George W. Bush. But she also wrote a scathing dissent in this term's medical-marijuana case, in which a majority of the Justices said that federal antidrug laws trump state efforts to let doctors prescribe marijuana...
...voted with the majority to end it. It was just the kind of switch that made the court's more doctrinaire conservatives nuts: "Seldom has an opinion of this court rested so obviously upon nothing but the personal views of its members," Associate Justice Antonin Scalia sniffed in a dissent. This year, though, O'Connor didn't join the majority of the court in putting an end to the death penalty for juveniles, again citing the national consensus rationale...
...stand up in the face of their accusations. He suggests that Clark and others, however, decided to go along with the charade rather than stick up for what they might otherwise believe is right. According to Thomas, the collective experiences of Nesson and Rosenberg taught other professors that dissent from Crit theory would be met with loud, potentially career-ending protests. Too many professors began to follow the route of least intellectual resistance, and the result was the intellectual suicide of America’s oldest and arguably most prestigious law school...