Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's Supreme Court career epitomizes the judicial lawlessness that has regularly stained constitutional law since Chief Justice Earl Warren's stewardship from 1954-1969. She celebrated standards of interpretation pivoting on discernments unrelated to law or legal education in which judges are no more expert than philosophers, poets, or playwrights. The nation's maiden female justice also viscerally embraced gender discrimination claims to avenge the authentic prejudice that had blunted her professional ambitions. She generally conceived of the judicial role more as a broker striking compromises between competing political factions than as an expounder of longheaded legal doctrines to inform...