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What’s happened to the Supreme Court

Gerald Leonard (BU): Jefferson's Constitutions. Brigham Daniels (BYU) and Blake Hudson (LSU): Our Constitutional Commons. Brian Leiter (Chicago): Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature. Ernest A. Young (Duke): Constitutionalism Outside the Courts. Gregory Brazeal (Army JAG): Constitutional Fundamentalism. No, sorry, you’re not a “constitutional conservative”. Michael Bailey (Georgetown) and Matthew L. Spitzer (Northwestern): Appointing Extremists. When Chief Justice John Roberts and his conservative brethren gutted the Voting Rights Act or when they weakened anti-discrimination law they aren’t defying any grand tradition of justice in the Supreme Court of the United States. Ian Millhiser writes in defense of court-packing: When the Supreme Court willfully misreads the Constitution, FDR’s plan doesn’t seem so bad. If you want to understand what’s happened to the Supreme Court, you need to listen to Rand Paul. This SCOTUS destroyed America: Elias Isquith on how Citizens United is ruining more than our elections. David Cole on the Supreme Court’s billion-dollar mistake. Radley Balko on the Supreme Court’s massive blind spot. Richard L. Hasen (UC-Irvine): The Most Sarcastic Justice. The Unsinkable R.B.G.: Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no interest in retiring. The rigorous romantic: Linda Greenhouse on Anthony Lewis on the Supreme Court beat. Scott Lively warns that SCOTUS could unleash the Antichrist.