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Bush and SCOTUS

By Kent Scheidegger et al.

Tony Mauro has this long article in Legal Times on President Bush's legacy of Supreme Court appointments. A few excerpts: A new law review study of the Roberts Court?s decisions concludes, in a play on Greenhouse?s 2007 assessment, that ?conservatives should continue to yearn, and liberals should not fear.? From the viewpoint of business litigants, says Sidley Austin?s Supreme Court expert Carter Phillips, ?If the world had truly changed, employers would have won a lot more cases than they did last term.? Adds Mayer Brown?s Dan Himmelfarb: ?Moderate conservatives being replaced by pragmatic conservatives hasn?t made much difference in most cases.? *      *      * ?It seems clear to us,? says [Lee] Epstein [of NWU], ?that reports of the sea-change generated by O?Connor?s departure and the onset of the Roberts era are overwrought at best and mistaken at worst...continue to full post

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