The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right.

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Edited by Herman Schwartz. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. Pp. 276. $25.00.

With rumors that the Chief Justice's tenure may soon be coming to an end, The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right is well timed as one of the most comprehensive surveys of the shifts the Rehnquist Court has occasioned in America's constitutional and statutory jurisprudence. Included in the collection are fifteen essays on topics ranging from the "Rehnquist Revolution in Criminal Procedure" to "The `Miserly' Approach to Disability Rights," along with a foreword by Tom Wicker and a detailed introduction by the editor that admirably places the collection in its historical and political context. The common thread through the contributions is the extent to which the Rehnquist Court has been marked by conservative activism. Nowhere is this criticism more visible--and more scathing--than in...