Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991
The Reagan Revolution and the Supreme Court
By Ronald Dworkin
Order and Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution—A Firsthand Account
by Charles Fried
Simon and Schuster, 256 pp., $19.95
The right-wing lawyers Reagan appointed to the Department of Justice early in his presidency promised a 'Reagan revolution' in constitutional law. They tried to pack federal courts at all levels with judges who survived the most stringent political tests for judicial appointment ever used in this country; and they asked these judges to make decisions that would overturn decades of constitutional precedent and leave the Constitution no longer an important source of minority or individual rights against unjustified public authority.
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