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To: Lane3 who wrote (6738)7/4/2003 8:37:07 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7720
 
they worry more about their legacies than sucking up to
passive voters and incessant media attention.


Per person, I suspect they get a lot more media attention than legislators. True, they're not on the Sunday morning TV shows, but when's the last time the legislature got on the covers of both Time and Newsweek for a bill they passed? And when has there been the degree of speculation over a prospective legislative act that there is over the suspicion that within a few years the SC is going to declare that laws dictating opposite sexes only in marriage also violates the constitution?

And it's their legacies I'm concerned about. No justice ever got admired for sticking to the Constitution. The justices who have legacies are those who were highly activist -- Marshall, Holmes, Warren, figures like that.