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Unusual alliances on the Supreme Court

Keith E. Whittington (Princeton): The Least Activist Supreme Court in History? The Roberts Court and the Exercise of Judicial Review. Aziz Z. Huq (Chicago): Habeas and the Roberts Court. Ellen D. Katz (Michigan): Justice Ginsburg's Umbrella. David Fontana (George Washington): The People's Justice? (“written for a symposium at Yale Law School on Justice Sonia Sotomayor's first five years on the Court”.) I. Bennett Capers (Brooklyn): Reading Michigan v. Bryant, “Reading” Justice Sotomayor. David Fontana on how a stirring dissent shows why Justice Sotomayor is a national treasure. Chief Justice Roberts, meet Bundy and Sterling: Jeffrey Toobin on how the vile words of the rancher and the basketball tycoon showed just how right Sotomayor was. Scott Lemieux on Ruth Bader Ginsburg, retirement, and the value of term limits. What is Clarence Thomas thinking? Garrett Epps wonders. Jeffrey Toobin on Clarence Thomas's disgraceful silence (and a response: Who cares about Clarence Thomas's silence?) Clarence Thomas is not a lightweight: He is one of the more intelligent members of the Supreme Court — and he is one of the most dangerous men in America. Corey Robin on eleven things you did not know about Clarence Thomas and on Clarence Thomas’s counterrevolution. John Stoehr on the post-racialism of Clarence Thomas. Antonin Scalia says Japanese internment could happen again: The Justice warns that, in wartime, legal norms can be swept away. Brian Beutler on how Scalia's epic blunder exposes his partisan hackery (and more and more). For Justices, free speech often means “speech I agree with”. Calvin TerBeek reviews Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court Is Not a Court and Its Justices Are Not Judges by Eric J. Segall. Pamela S. Karlan on what we find in unusual alliances on the Supreme Court.