Justice John Paul Stevens, who retired from the Supreme Court in 2010, passed away yesterday at the age of 99. When he retired from the Court, I wrote this piece on his First Amendment legacy. Spoiler Alert: it's a mixed legacy.
Stevens was appointed by Gerald Ford, who sounded like an absolute statesman on the day he nominated him in 1975. Today it is virtually impossible to imagine a Republican president nominating someone on the basis of judicial integrity and fidelity to the rules of law.
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