The dangers of having all-Ivy Leauge Supreme Court Under Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court has emerged as one of the most ideologically aggressive in decades, and its rightward trajectory is usually attributed to this simple fact: a majority of the justices are very conservative. Today’s Court contains, according to one study, four of the five most conservative justices to sit on the bench since FDR; Anthony Kennedy, the putative swing vote, is in the top 10. But having covered the Court for 15 years, I’ve come to believe that what we’re seeing goes beyond ideology. Because ideology alone would not propel the justices to effect such massive shifts upon the constitutional landscape, inventing rights for corporations while gutting protections for women, minorities and workers. No, the real problem, I think, is that the Court as a whole has gotten too smart for our own good. Read more... More about Supreme Court, Us World, and Us Mashable The New Republic November 14, 2014 at 09:15PM
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