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Originally Posted by Platapus
Why do you say he is "Very Liberal" He is a Republican who sometimes rules with the liberals and sometimes with the conservatives on the bench.
He was a liberal leaning moderate in my book and that is not a bad thing.
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Stevens is a Republican but he is a liberal jurist, in fact he is often referred to as "The Chief Justice of the Liberal Supreme Court" One semester in college I did a paper(could turn it into a book I guess, 1051 pages) on SCOTUS, which entailed quite a bit of research of the justices naturally.Stevens is a liberal jurist but did make some suprising votes.Of course his big flops were Bush v Gore when he wrote a scathing dissent and was wrong to do so.The other case that I know off top of my head is Scott v Harris in which he was the lone dissenter 8-1, which it really showed his liberal side in dissenting from a common sense opinion.
Hopefully this will be the last chance obama will get to stock the court with crazies.We need more like Scalia and Thomas.