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Clerk and Justice: The Ties That Bind John Paul Stevens and Wiley B. Rutledge

By Alliance Alert

Justice John Paul Stevens, now starting his thirty-third full term on the Supreme Court, served as law clerk to Justice Wiley B. Rutledge during the Court's 1947 Term. That experience has informed both elements of Stevens's jurisprudence and aspects of his approach to his institutional role. Like Rutledge, Stevens has written powerful opinions on issues of individual rights, the Establishment Clause, and the reach of executive power in wartime.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).