xTooltipElement
    1. Obama's Enemies List
      Peter Wehner
    2. Islamist Extremism and the Murder of Daniel Pearl
      Joseph I. Lieberman
    3. Why Obama Is Wrong on Missile Defense
      Steven Price
    4. How Politics Destroyed a Great TV Show
      Jonah Goldberg
      October 2009
    5. Why Are Jews Liberals?—A Symposium
      David Wolpe, Jonathan D. Sarna, Michael Medved, William Kristol and Jeff Jacoby
      September 2009

Advertisement



October 2003

E-mail Article Reserve Article Download PDF Version
Yes, I would like to receive periodic updates and information via e-mail from Commentary.

Thank You

A link to

"Has the Supreme Court Gone Too Far?"

has been emailed to your friends.

Most E-mailed articles:

Abstract –

Have recent rulings by the Supreme Court subverted fundamental elements of our constitutional order? Are there circumstances in which the Supreme Court is justified in reaching beyond its own precedents and the Constitution itself? What (if anything) shou


About the Authors

Robert L. Bartley is editor emeritus of the Wall Street Journal and writes its weekly “Thinking Things Over” column.

William J. Bennett is the former U.S. Secretary of Education and the author of, among other books, Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches.

Peter Berkowitz teaches at George Mason University School of Law and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Robert H. Bork is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Tad and Dianne Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His new book is Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges (AEI).

Alan Dershowitz is a professor of law at Harvard. His latest book is The Case for Israel (Wiley).

Lino A. Graglia is the A. Dalton Cross professor at the law school of the University of Texas.

William Kristol is the editor of the Weekly Standard and co-edited the volume Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the COMMENTARY (2001).

Sanford Levinson teaches at the law school of the University of Texas. His most recent book is Wrestling With Diversity (Duke).

Dahlia Lithwick is the Supreme Court and legal correspondent for Slate.

Jeffrey Rosen, legal-affairs editor of the New Republic, teaches law at George Washington University and is the author of The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (2001).

Cass R. Sunstein teaches law at the University of Chicago. His latest book is Why Societies Need Dissent (Harvard).

George Weigel is a senior fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and the author of The Courage to be Catholic and Witness to Hope.

James Q. Wilson, the distinguished social scientist, is the author most recently of The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families.