He doesn’t understand—or doesn’t know about—the reasons why the framers restricted the federal government in the ways they did (Nor, why they granted a right to bear arms.)
Stevens was purportedly well into senility before he retired from the court.
He wrote the majority opinion in one case (memory fails), citing a precedent that meant the exact opposite of how he construed it.
Evidently, neither his clerks nor his peers on the court could handle him.
Stevens was purportedly well into senility before he retired from the court.
He wrote the majority opinion in one case (memory fails), citing a precedent that meant the exact opposite of how he construed it.
Evidently, neither his clerks nor his peers on the court could handle him.