Freedom: Fighting The Battle On 50 Fronts

December, 1990

The day Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan resigned, Bruce Fein—an astute, conservative analyst of the Court—predicted gleefully that the Court would now be transformed into "a conservative juggernaut."Fein based his optimism on the clear fact that Brennan in recent years had been able to partially hold back the evisceration of the Bill of Rights by being the deciding vote in a number of five–four decisions.In the Court's—and Brennan's—last term, for example, he prevailed in the...