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After Stevens

By Steve Hall

That's the title of Jeffrey Toobin's excellent article in the current issue of the New Yorker.  It's subtitled, "What will the Supreme Court be like without its liberal leader?"Toobin will be Terry Gross' first guest on NPR's Fresh Air, today.  Check you local NPR station for time, or listen at the link.Here's the beginning of Toobin's must-read:Supreme Court Justices are remembered for their opinions, but they are revealed by their questions. For many years, Sandra Day O?Connor chose to open the questioning in most cases, and thus show the lawyers?and her colleagues?which way she, as the Court?s swing vote, was leaning. Today, Antonin Scalia often jumps in first, signalling the intentions of the Court?s ascendant conservative wing, and sometimes Chief Justice John G...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 15, 2010 (boomark / email).