Perspective
Apr. 28, 2010
Justice John Paul Stevens' Automythology
Joerg Knipprath of Southwestern Law School challenges Justice John Paul Stevens' self-invention as a rock steady conservative whose views never changed.
The retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens has produced a temporary cottage industry in encomia to the long-serving jurist. Some of the praise is well-deserved; some is not. Some of it, however, is rather odd and appears to be the result of a narrative that he has sought to create over the last several years.
The core of that narrative is that Justice Stevens is just a staunch conservative steadfastly resisting the forces...
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