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Politics And The Court: Did The Supreme Court Really Move Left Because Of Embarrassment Over Bush V. Gore?, John C. Eastman
Politics And The Court: Did The Supreme Court Really Move Left Because Of Embarrassment Over Bush V. Gore?, John C. Eastman
John C. Eastman
The premise of the "hot topics" panel at the 2005 AALS convention was that the Rehnquist Court had in 2004 retreated from its bolder conservatism, asserting itself on the side of individual liberty against a federal government that had grown increasingly cavalier toward civil liberties during three years of a war on terror and two decades of a renewed war on crime. Proof of the premise was said to be found in a pair of Sixth Amendment cases, Crawford v. Washington and Blakely v. Washington, and also in the trilogy of terrorism cases, Rumsfeld v. Padilla, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, and …