John Paul Stevens' Contributions to Liberty

Opening remarks by Dean Kevin Johnson; and Justice John Paul Stevens (via videotape). Panel One: Liberty. The 2009 UC Davis Law Review Symposium examines the career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Since his appointment by President Gerald Ford in 1975, Justice Stevens has crafted a rich jurisprudence on matters involving core values of liberty, equality, and security. Legal experts from academia, journalism, and the practice, many of whom served as law clerks to the Justice, analyze his work on topics including terrorism, criminal justice, abortion, affirmative action, and environmental protection.

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[JC7383]

@namtesyalp Well-respected figures with backgrounds in law on both sides of the spectrum consider his opinions, at the very least even when in disagreement, to be rooted in sound & consistent legal rationale. That's just about all you can ask from a justice. The complex decisions that the court renders cannot be properly understood by tuning in to Fox News or Rush Limbaugh. Using a sound bite from a pundit or "analysis" from bloggers with no legal background is an insult to the institution.

[MrWsad]

@lasagnajohn idiot.

[namtesyalp]

No sound bite,its my words.He would have sided with the conservatives on a major decision at least once if he had a mind of his own

[bmf1706]

@namtesyalp But he's probably so much better than his soon-to-be-named Replacement....

[namtesyalp]

The dishonorable steven is more like it.A radical that stuck down laws that protected rights to citizens while finding things that stole rights from the states to create things not in the constitution.For almost 35 years,injustice toward the founders and the american people have been violated by this sorry excuse for a justice.

[lasagnajohn]

boooooring, lol.