10 ways to look at Justice John Paul Stevens
Published: Apr 12, 2010
- “The last common law justice”
- “A bridge between two eras of our domestic and judicial politics”
- Leader of the “opposition to the galloping judicial overreach of the court’s conservatives”
- “An activist who is not afraid to use the Court to achieve his own philosophical ends”
- Architect of “the legal environment that gave rise to today's Internet”
- One of the justices most “open to the use of international and foreign law at the Supreme Court”
- “The consummate dealmaker”
- “On the law almost always right”
- “Exemplified the difference between diversity and empathy”
- “The gold standard of intellectual integrity and personal decency”
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