I think toward the end of his tenure he was more sensitive to the compromises that you have to make if you're going to assemble a majority. -Mark Tushnet

 

I think toward the end of his tenure he was more sensitive to the compromises that you have to make if you're going to assemble a majority.


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The Supreme Court has said Congress does have the power to create new legal interests -- to confer standing on people who otherwise wouldn't have it.

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I don't think his fundamental views changed over the roughly 30 years he was on the court.

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I think toward the end of his tenure he was more sensitive to the compromises that you have to make if you're going to assemble a majority. -Mark Tushnet
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Unlike with Kennedy, there was no honeymoon period for conservatives, ... Souter relatively quickly moved to the left. And there were explicit assurances from [then White House Chief of Staff John] Sununu that Souter was a conservative.

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They're not willing to subject their designation to the scrutiny of any outsider except under an extremely loose standard.

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[Still, the Supreme Court is another kind of universe.] If there were an ad for the job, it would be, 'Inside work, no heavy lifting,' ... The justices hear only the cases they want to hear, write only what they want to write. It's great. -Mark Tushnet
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But there are some issues that have simply dropped out of contention.

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