tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post113081590160046992..comments2024-03-26T12:23:35.307-05:00Comments on The Buck Stops Here: The Samuel Alito SeatStuart Buckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05731724396708879386noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1131122391770772562005-11-04T10:39:00.000-06:002005-11-04T10:39:00.000-06:00"none of whom left a lasting mark on the law"I am ..."none of whom left a lasting mark on the law"<BR/><BR/>I am not sure how you can say that about John Marshall Harlan, who was the sole dissenting vote in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), the case that approved "separate but equal". <BR/><BR/>Henry Abraham in his book "Justices and Presidents", vol 1 and vol 2 (and presumably Vol 3), notes that John Marshall Harlan has regularly been given the highest marks by legal experts and historians who study the US Supreme Court.Bwanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02110636703581508684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3152270.post-1131048434876130122005-11-03T14:07:00.000-06:002005-11-03T14:07:00.000-06:00"none of whom left a lasting mark on the law"I'm n..."none of whom left a lasting mark on the law"<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure how you can say that about O'Connor. Sure, she was no great legal mind. But she was the decisive vote in dozens of major cases and wrote several ill-thought-out majority opinions in those cases that will haunt us for decades to come.Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11937937683432173560noreply@blogger.com