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Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Court.

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From: Washington Monthly
Date: 19920501
Author:Moran, Terence

Relax, liberals. The courts have seldom been a crucible of American social justice

There's an old story in American law that David Savage's book brings to mind. On a Saturday afternoon many years ago, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. took a break from his work at the Supreme Court and went for lunch with his friend Judge Learned Hand, a man 30 years younger than Holmes who was just beginning a celebrated judicial career of his own. As the two men returned to the Old Senate Chamber in the Capitol Building, where the Supreme Court once sat, they took their leave, and Hand ...

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