[nwrep]

Rehnquist and White dissented.

[DoodleBob]

Data are your friend.

Martin–Quinn scores or M-Q scores are dynamic metrics used to gauge the ideology of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice based on their voting record.

[FLT-bird]

Rhenquist was good. The rest not so much. Admittedly I don’t know much about White - he was before my time.

[ansel12]

The old men and the institutions were all turning America far left during the 60s and 70s, and even earlier, the media has convinced America that it was a ground swell of the children and teenagers, which common sense should inform people how absurd that is, even if they don’t know about government and universities of post war America and the FDR years.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Powell and Blackmun were generally considered conservative at the times as well.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Lewis Powell and Harry Blackmun were generally considered conservative at the time as well, though Blackmun in particular started off as more conservative but veered leftward over time.

[Carry_Okie]

Burger iced Earl Warren’s cake.

Rehnquist stemmed the tide a bit, with at least a minor return to Federalism. Roberts has been a somewhat ineffectual disaster thanks to Thomas and Alito.

[Vermont Lt]

Do you really need people to tell you how to think?

You need to do some research on your own. It’s easy today with all of the AI assistants out there.

[Fedora]

Douglas was tied to a Communist cell at Yale and a corrupt circle of New Dealers centered around lobbyist Tommy Corcoran; on the Supreme Court, he was getting payments from the Alvin Parvin Foundation (mob-connected). Marshall and White were allied closely with the Kennedys.

[Salman]

Observation about legalizing porn, which in practice meant movies.
Because that's where the money was and furthermore literary porn was already legal:

There was a "national debate" not just a sudden court decision. And it wasn't just pro or anti.
There were a bunch of "nuanced" positions about how to control it and keep it away from children.
All manner of "studies" showing it was harmful or not harmful.

But everyone in on the discussion -- liberal or conservative -- made the same two unquestioned unexamined assumptions:

1) That porn would cost money.
2) That one would have to leave the house to buy it (because it was still prohibited through the US mail).

How far we have come.