Nov 20, 2008 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—The Roberts Court: A Jurisprudential Era? When I was working as a lawyer in the Clinton administration, first in the Department of Justice (DOJ), and then as Deputy General Counsel in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), I was involved in the...
Nov 20, 2008 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—The Roberts Court: A Jurisprudential Era? In late June 2007, the newly formed Roberts Supreme Court of the United States issued two significant opinions: Morse v. Frederick, and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1. The...
Nov 20, 2008 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 42
It was late in November of 1972. Roe v. Wade had been under consideration at the Supreme Court for a year, with release of the opinion now less than two months away. Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., one of Justice Harry A. Blackmun’s most steadfast allies throughout the...
Nov 20, 2008 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 42
On September 11, terrorists fly hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Over 3,000 Americans are killed. The nation—indeed the world—is stunned. The French paper Le Monde runs the headline: “We are all Americans.” There are candlelight vigils...
Nov 11, 2008 | Lead Articles, Number 1, Print Edition, Volume 42
Symposium—The Roberts Court: A Jurisprudential Era? It might be tempting for political liberals, who would like to rely upon the United States Supreme Court to defend individual liberties and to sustain progressive legislation, to conclude that the sky has fallen. It...