Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Abstract
On the last opinion day of the last of his 35 Terms on the Supreme Court, Justice John Paul Stevens issued his valedictory opinion, a 57-page dissent in McDonald v. City of Chicago. Justice Stevens laid out an expansive vision of constitutional interpretation that Justice Alito aptly called "eloquent" in his plurality opinion. Not one for sentimental farewells, Justice Scalia was less generous: "Justice Stevens' approach," he wrote in the last line of his concurring opinion," puts democracy in peril."
Disciplines
Law | Supreme Court of the United States
Recommended Citation
Jamal Greene,
Justice Stevens' Temperance,
94
Judicature
11
(2010).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/3299