In today’s New York Times, Linda Greenhouse points out that while many expected the last 11 years of the Rehnquist Court to produce conservative revolutions, in the end the state of the law ended up moving more to the left than to the right:
the period was dynamic, even tumultuous, but by the time it was over, the [conservative] revolutions had fizzled or run their course, and the fervor appeared to have died. To the extent that there was basic change, it was to the left rather than the right: a firmer foundation for affirmative action, a constitutional framework for gay rights.
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