By Thomas R. Hensley
Did the Rehnquist court docket, which the liberal Warren court docket and the reasonable Burger court docket, in attaining a conservative counterrevolution? utilizing quantitative information to complement unique opinion research, political scientist Thomas R. Hensley argues that continuity no longer swap characterised the Rehnquist courtroom period. yet definitely, the Rehnquist court docket used to be often a struggle zone.Fourteen justices served throughout the Rehnquist period, which all started in 1986 throughout the Reagan management and ended with Rehnquist's dying in September 2005. Presidents Reagan and Bush appointed conservative justices and set in movement an attack at the "ultra-liberal" judgements made by means of the 2 prior courts. yet President Clinton appointed average Democrats, slowing the conservative juggernaut. the end result? the most attention-grabbing, contentious, and the most important classes within the background of the U.S. excellent court docket.
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Bush Ford G. H. W. 2: Liberal/Conservative Voting Records of Rehnquist Court Justices in Civil Rights/Liberties Cases, 1986–1987 to 2004–2005 Terms (Percent Liberal Voting, Ranked from Lowest to Highest) Justice Thomas Rehnquist Scalia White Kennedy O’Connor Powell Breyer Souter Ginsburg Blackmun Stevens Brennan Marshall Percent Liberal Voting 23 24 27 34 35 38 39 62 63 66 71 71 87 88 Source: Harold J. Spaeth, United States Supreme Court Judicial Database, 1953–2004 Terms (Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, 2005).
Wade (1973), but he was generally noncommittal about other areas of the law. The vote in the Senate in support of Breyer was an overwhelming 87–9. Breyer’s record on the Supreme Court has not provided many surprises. He has been a moderate liberal in civil rights and liberties cases, voting 62 percent liberal through the 2004–2005 term. He has been most likely to vote with the Court’s other moderate liberals, Souter and Ginsburg. Breyer’s replacement of Blackmun has therefore not had a significant impact on the direction of the Court, although Blackmun was somewhat more liberal in every major area of civil rights and liberties.
S. at 538). Yet another facet of civil rights and liberties that felt the direct impact of Kennedy’s appointment was the Establishment Clause. The Burger Court had been deeply divided over the proper interpretation of this clause, but in a series of decisions in 1985, the Burger Court justices embraced a liberal orientation that stressed the importance of government neutrality involving church-state relations and supported the Lemon test that emphasized that the primary purpose and effect of government policies must neither advance nor inhibit religion.
