Thursday, May 17, 2007
The Roberts Court
Jan Crawford Greenburg writes:
This is a Supreme Court engaged in a fierce battle of ideas, a big-picture struggle over the role of the Court and the direction it's going to take. When you talk about long-range influence over the law, it's the ideas that define the Court. It's a Court in struggle-not for the vote of one justice, but for an intellectual mooring.
It's the Roberts Court v. the Stevens Court.
And as this term is beginning to make clear, in that battle, Roberts' vision is going to win out.
This is a Supreme Court engaged in a fierce battle of ideas, a big-picture struggle over the role of the Court and the direction it's going to take. When you talk about long-range influence over the law, it's the ideas that define the Court. It's a Court in struggle-not for the vote of one justice, but for an intellectual mooring.
It's the Roberts Court v. the Stevens Court.
And as this term is beginning to make clear, in that battle, Roberts' vision is going to win out.




