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Court's move right: leaning more than lurching?

By Mark Obbie

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Tony Mauro's story in Legal Times isn't so remarkable for its claim that the conservative makeover of the Supreme Court is not yet complete -- it's pegged, after all, to a new law review article, other experts' claims, and Mauro's own reading of the cases -- as it is cheeky for naming names of journalists whose stories Mauro is diplomatically knocking. He writes:

Most Court commentators believe conservatives are finally riding high in the saddle at the Supreme Court—and enjoying it. Increasingly, their ascendancy is being viewed, as author Jeffrey Toobin puts it, as President George W. Bush’s “most enduring triumph.” In The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse, now retired from the beat, wrote that it is “the Supreme Court that conservatives had long yearned for and that liberals feared.” NPR’s Nina Totenberg chimed in that conservatives “seem to have reached the promised land.”Without being churlish, it is fair to wonder whether even this part of the Bush legacy is the shining success it is cracked up to be.

Maybe not churlish, but certainly unusual in its candor for identifying those commentators by name. The story goes on to cite Mauro's own evidence for a less-than-complete turn rightward, along with the conclusions in a new Tulsa Law Review article, co-authored by Northwestern University political scientist Lee Epstein.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on November 04, 2008 (boomark / email).