Justice Breyer: A pragmatic moderate
SCOTUSBlog
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Idealogues have sought to reshape the court’s jurisprudence in their own ideological vision, whether liberal or conservative, often at the expense of stare decisis and typically voiced most vigorously in dissenting opinions. Think of Marshall and William Brennan in death-penalty cases. After that, he became a full-time academic.
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