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  • Mystics of the Court: Stephen Breyer’s activism

    12/14/2005 12:06:28 PM PST · by stop_fascism · 19 replies · 1,090+ views
    National Review Online ^ | December 14, 2005 | Rep. Tom Feeney
    Give Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer his due. With the publication of his new book Active Liberty, he enthusiastically embraces a mea culpa approach to allegations that Supreme Court justices invent, recreate, and expand constitutional principles as they please. Viewed as a response to Justice Antonin Scalia's A Matter of Interpretation, Breyer’s book, openly advocates for the notion that U.S. constitutional law is whatever a majority of Supreme Court justices wishes based upon their own notions of what "democracy" and fairness should produce. In other words, I and thousands of other attorneys wasted our time taking constitutional law since that...
  • Justice Breyer on "Active Liberty"

    12/14/2005 7:42:48 PM PST · by Otho · 18 replies · 942+ views
    National Review Online ^ | Dec. 14, 2005 | Representative Tom Feeney
    Give Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer his due. With the publication of his new book "Active Liberty," he enthusiastically embraces a mea culpa approach to allegations that Supreme Court justices invent, recreate, and expand constitutional principles as they please. Viewed as a response to Justice Antonin Scalia's "A Matter of Interpretation," Breyer’s book, openly advocates for the notion that U.S. constitutional law is whatever a majority of Supreme Court justices wishes...