For eight years, during the George W. Bush administration, members of the liberal legal community watched–almost helplessly–as the conservative legal revolution matured and began to yield the gains its architects had forecast: a firm grip on the U.S. Supreme Court and the installation of another generation of federal judges.
So you can forgive them if they believed that in Barack Obama, they had found their paladin. The president, a Harvard Law School graduate and a constitutional law lecturer at the University of Chicago, seemed ideally suited to help reclaim some of the ground lost during the Reagan and Bush years, ground that Bill Clinton did not always successfully defend.
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