Author: Ronald Dworkin
Publisher: New York Review Books
Keywords: court, wing, bloc, right, new, phalanx, supreme
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-05-13
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1590172930
ISBN-13: 9781590172933

George W. Bush’s nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005 were widely expected to turn it sharply to the right. But no one foresaw the rapidity or the revolutionary zeal with which, as Ronald Dworkin writes, the Court would begin “overruling, most often by stealth, the central constitutional doctrines that generations of past justices, conservative as well as liberal, had constructed.”  Dworkin examines the key decisions of the Court’s 2006-–2007 term and argues that these two new justices, along with Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have c