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...opinions displeasing some feminists, gay-rights activists and civil libertarians. But students of his career agree that his hallmark is conservatism in a quite different sense: he avoids propounding sweeping doctrines of how to interpret the Constitution. Instead, he often decides cases on the narrowest possible grounds. Says Alex Kozinski, a former Kennedy clerk and now a colleague on the Ninth Circuit bench: "Judge Bork is an academician. He has an overall theory of the law and the Constitution, and he tries to fit cases into that theory. Tony Kennedy is much more in the mold of Lewis Powell...
...prison. But Kennedy has shown sensitivity to the plight of individuals, something that critics found lacking in Bork. One case arose after police discovered drugs on an immigrant crossing the Mexican border by subjecting the man to a body-cavity search. "I remember him agonizing over that," says Kozinski. The suspect was clearly guilty, but Kennedy "felt he had been treated way below the standards for a civilized society." So he joined in overturning the conviction...
...second chapter, it becomes apparent that the book works on both a symbolical-fantasy level and a representational one, a tension that recalls the effects of Jerzy Kozinski's vignettes in Steps. In what appears to be part of his "real world," Randy is absorbed momentarily by Progressive Labor, adopts a stringent Marxist line and announces that "whoever isn't a Marxist eats shit." The infusion of colloquial language lends a very real resonance to the book. Randy, finding the first few pages of Capital almost incomprehensible, suddenly becomes a coprophiliac. At this point, Author Innis begins to pull even...