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Ed Whalen Comments on Ronald Dworkin's New Book: Over at Bench Memos, Ed Whalen has this post commenting on the first few chapters of Ronald Dworkin's new book, The Supreme Court Phalanx: The Court?s New Right-Wing Bloc. The book republishes the essays Dworkin wrote for the New York Review of Books from 2005 through 2007. Whalen's post smartly points out that Dworkin's main thesis - that Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice Scalia, and Justice Thomas always took the "most conservative positions possible" is "patently false", especially when considering that Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas have taken the middle-of-the-constitutional-road position that the Constitution does not prohibit abortion, as well as the position that in the area of race, the Constitution requires the government to be color blind...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime and Consequences on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).