Liberal prof gets conservative over Supreme Court

From Christopher Chantrill in today's The American Thinker:

There was a time, and it wasn’t so long ago, when liberals exuded confidence and panache. They proposed sweeping legislation and their pals on the U.S. Supreme Court confidently used the research results of social scientists to justify sweeping decisions to outlaw race-based education (in Brown v. Board of Education) or to mandate race-based busing of children (in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education). Liberal pundits confidently sneered at conservatives as necessary but laughable “standpatters” without the stomach for bold, persistent experimentation.

How times change. Last week the very liberal Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of Duke Law School was worrying aloud to radio host Hugh Hewitt about Justice Clarence Thomas, no doubt in an effort to scotch any attempt to elevate him to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America.