| You Say You Want a Revolution?
Jonathan Rauch
National Journal, July 30, 2005, v37, #31, pp2438-2444
"Political partisans of the Right and Left alike view the retirement of Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor as a turning point for the Supreme Court. After all, she was often the swing vote in 5-4 decisions, and as conservatives go, she was both moderate and unpredictable. In John G. Roberts Jr., Bush has nominated a judge about whom little is firmly known, but many observers expect him to be at least somewhat more reliably conservative than O'Connor.... A closer examination reveals a more complicated story. Legally, incremental change seems more likely than revolution, continuity more likely than reversal. Politically, conservatives may be in for a surprise: The more conservative the Court, the more divided the conservatives." Jonathan Rauch is a columnist for National Journal, a correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, and a writer in residence at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Go to the article
Request Password
|
