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The myth of Supreme Court exceptionalism

Stephen R. McAllister (Kansas): Individual Rights under a System of Dual Sovereignty: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Joseph Blocher (Duke): The Right Not to Keep or Bear Arms. Tom Donnelly (Harvard): Making Popular Constitutionalism Work. Paul Horwitz (Alabama): Our Boggling Constitution; or, Taking Text Really, Really Seriously. Jeffrey M. Shaman (DePaul): Justice Scalia and the Art of Rhetoric. Wronged without recourse: Supreme Court precedent sets back worker rights. A review of The Living Constitution by David A. Strauss. Beware judges with a vision: The Supreme Court's historic role has been to slow, not accelerate, social reform. A review of The Supreme Court and the American Elite, 1789–2008 by Lucas A Powe, Jr. Let the cameras roll: Anthony Mauro on cameras in the Court and the myth of Supreme Court exceptionalism. Two political scientists review a survey of perceptions about the U.S. Supreme Court and find the public may actually want the justices to trade their black robes for red and blue ones. A review of The Meaning of Property: Freedom, Community, and the Legal Imagination by Jedediah Purdy. The meaning of equal: Conservative originalists are rethinking their narrow reading of the 14th Amendment. A review of Why the Law Is So Perverse by Leo Katz. How the Justices get what they want: A review of Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court by Jeff Shesol and Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices by Noah Feldman. People who think Justice Elena Kagan should recuse herself from the looming “Obamacare” case might want to take a closer look at her first term. An interview with Sanford Levinson, author of Constitutional Faith. A review of Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change by Jeffrey Rosen and Benjamin Wittes.