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Rehnquist's departure would open a broader field of true-blue conservatives. Michael Luttig and J. Harvie Wilkinson III, colleagues on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, know they're in the running and have jousted competitively in recent opinions. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch is said to want...
But a sizable number of critics, from law professors to some of the court's own members, have attacked the ruling as antidemocratic and politically motivated. Many say they were pained to see a court that once distinguished itself by removing barriers to voting--including racial prohibitions, poll taxes and...
But a life without arbitrary dates could get a little dull. "Is there no change of death in paradise?" the poet Wallace Stevens wrote. His idea was that paradise would be infinitely tedious because nothing ever really changed, and it is change that makes life interesting.
It seemed clear at oral argument in the first round that the Justices were split on partisan grounds. "The most worrisome thing," says University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, "was that the conservatives just gave Gore's lawyer a hard time, and vice versa." And the curt order the...
A showdown between the Florida and the U.S. Supreme courts is really no contest. Under federalism, the U.S. Supreme Court can overrule state courts where issues of federal law are involved. But the real drama lies in whether five Justices will actually decide to do that. Unlike the high court...