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Adam Liptak's Latest Sidebar

By Steve Hall

His Sidebar column in today's New York Times is, "After 34 Years, a Plainspoken Justice Gets Louder."The Supreme Court announced its big campaign finance decision at 10 in the morning last Thursday. By 10:30 a.m., after Justice Anthony M. Kennedy had offered a brisk summary of the majority opinion and Justice John Paul Stevens labored through a 20-minute rebuttal, a sort of twilight had settled over the courtroom.It seemed the Stevens era was ending.Justice Stevens, who will turn 90 in April, joined the court in 1975 and is the longest-serving current justice by more than a decade. He has given signals that he intends to retire at the end of this term, and his dissent on Thursday was shot through with disappointment, frustration and uncharacteristic sarcasm...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).