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Surprise at the Supreme Court

Stephen M. Griffin (Tulane): Constitutional Change in the United States. Michael Stokes Paulsen (St. Thomas): How to Count to Thirty-Four: The Constitutional Case for a Constitutional Convention. Elizabeth Price Foley (FIU): Sovereignty, Rebalanced: The Tea Party and Constitutional Amendments. Rebecca E. Zietlow (Toledo): Popular Originalism? The Tea Party Movement and Constitutional Theory. Charles W. (Rocky) Rhodes IV (South Texas): What Conservative Constitutional Revolution? Moderating Five Degrees of Judicial Conservatism after Six Years of the Roberts Court. Simon Lazarus (NSCLC): Hertz or Avis? Progressives' Quest to Reclaim the Constitution and the Courts. A review of The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote, and the Transformation of American Politics by Stephen Ansolabehere and James M. Snyder. Michael Klarman (Harvard): Has the Supreme Court Been More a Friend or Foe to African Americans? William M. Carter Jr. (Temple): The Paradox of Political Power: Post-Racialism, Equal Protection, and Democracy. Guy-Uriel E. Charles, Daniel L. Chen, and G. Mitu Gulati (Duke): "Not that Smart": Sonia Sotomayor and the Construction of Merit. Strong Opinions: Jeffrey Rosen on this year’s biggest surprise at the Supreme Court — Elena Kagan’s prose. Robin L. West (Georgetown): The Anti-Empathic Turn. Hemant Sharma and Colin Glennon (Tennessee): Ideological Congruity between Appointing Presidents and Supreme Court Justices, 1937-2008. Richard L. Hasen (UC-Irvine): Teaching Bush V. Gore as History. James L. Gibson (WUSTL): Public Reverence for the U.S. Supreme Court: Is the Court Invincible? Adam D. Chandler (Yale): The Solicitor General of the United States: The Tenth Justice or a Zealous Advocate? A review of The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789-2008 by Lucas Powe.