Stephen Gillers, in The Nation (Sept. 17, 1983), P.O. Box 1953, Marion, Ohio 43305.
The nine-member U.S. Supreme Court is now dominated-at least, nu- merically-the appointees of conservative Republican presidents. Yet, for years now, the Court has confounded predictions that it would take a sharp Right turn.
The days of the liberal Warren Court nominally ended when Chief Justice Earl Warren retired in 1969 and was replaced by Warren Bur- ger, a Nixon appointee. President Nixon later named three...